Increasing agricultural diversity, particularly perennial based agroforestry systems, is re-emerging as a mechanism for ecological and economic benefits through the mitigation of environmental risks. By and large, rural producer social networks are important to the exchange of information on...

For more than two decades cluster policies have emerged as a central focus for decision-makers trying to instigate territorial development. The benefits, especially in terms of collective learning, knowledge sharing and other types of agglomeration economies and spill-over effects, are well...

We study the effects of a German national cluster policy on the structure of collaboration networks. The empirical analysis is based on original data that was collected in fall 2011 and late summer 2013 with cluster actors (firms and public research organizations) who received government...