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Cost efficiency, Morishima, Allen-Uzawa and Cross-Price elasticities among Irish potato farmers in Dedza district, Malawi

Assa, Maganga M.; Edriss, Abdi-Khalil; Matchaya, … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 1, pp. 59-73

Malawi has experienced a forward shift in its demand for Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) consumption. Given limited … production resources. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to measure the cost efficiency of smallholder Irish potato farmers in … technique was used to select 200 Irish potato farmers in Dedza in 2011 from whom input-output data and their prices were …

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Measuring social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities: The case of Cháparra, Peru

Hartmann, Dominik; Arata, Atilio - 2011

innovation has been elaborated and applied to the agricultural valley of Cháparra in the South of Peru. The results allow for an …

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Endogenous initiatives as a chance to improve rural livelihood? Results of a case study in Baltow, South-Eastern Poland

Gramzow, Andreas - 2006

Polish rural areas, compared to other EU-25 member states, still show a high agricultural employment due to a lack of job opportunities in other rural economic sectors. In particular, in South eastern Poland the shut down of heavy industry companies in the early 1990s left many rural inhabitants...

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Governing structural change and externalities in agriculture: toward a normative institutional economics of rural development

Petrick, Martin - 2004

The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...

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Experience with endogenous rural development initiatives and the prospects for Leader+ in the region Dolina Strugu, Poland

Gramzow, Andreas - 2005

This paper presents the results of a case study of local economic development in Dolina Strugu, Podkarpackie voivodship, Poland. Its aim is to analyse local development problems and chances, to investigate the potential of endogenous initiatives to support economic development, and to examine...

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Local partnership as an incubator for rural development: the case of Debrzno, North-Western Poland

Gramzow, Andreas - 2006

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gap in economic development between rural and urban regions in Poland has continuously grown. Increasing income disparities and the lack of job opportunities have already led to an outflow of young people out of and an increasing obsolescence in rural areas....

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Auswirkungen von Health Check und EU-Konjunkturprogramm auf die ländlichen Entwicklungsprogramme der deutschen Bundesländer

Tietz, Andreas - 2010

Als Folge des Health Check der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik sowie des europäischen Konjunkturprogramms wurden die Mittel des Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds zur Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums (ELER) aufgestockt, um damit geeignete Maßnahmen zur Reaktion auf die 'neuen Herausforderungen'...

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Rural networks in the funding period 2007 - 2013: A critical review of the EU policy instrument

Marquardt, Doris - 2011

Rural Networks have been implemented as an instrument to enhance EU rural development policies in the funding period 2007-2013. Gaps in European programme documents concerning the networks' purpose and their evaluation led to a survey of the National Network Units being conducted in 2010....

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Ländliche Entwicklungspolitik ab 2014: Eine Bewertung der Verordnungsvorschläge der Europäischen Kommission vom Oktober 2011

Grajewski, Regina (contributor) - 2011

Im Oktober 2011 hat die Europäische Kommission ihre Legislativvorschläge für die Gemeinsame Agrarpolitik (GAP) und die Strukturpolitik für die Finanzperiode 2014 bis 2020 veröffentlicht. Der vorliegende Arbeitsbericht gibt einen Überblick über die relevanten Verordnungsentwürfe und eine...

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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Journal of Peasant Studies 13 (1986) 4, pp. 258-271

The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the development of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...

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