Introduction and key concepts / Sophia Davidova, Ashok Mishra and Ken Thomson (Editors) -- EU policies and rural employment / Berkeley Hill -- U.S. policies and rural employment / David Blandford -- Trends in rural employment -- Rural employment trends in the EU / David Harvey -- Special study :...

The social responsibility of agribusiness is currently one of the highly debated issues. Factors such as the globalization of agri-food supply chains, increasing competition, further integration of Ukraine in Europe and the world market, developments of Ukrainian large scale farms as well as...

This book examines the major rural developments and the issues that policy makers have been dealing with across the OECD over the last two decades. The OECD Conference, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2002, on the Future of Rural Policy, identified the need for rural policies to look beyond...