This strategic paper discusses Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan (GTP) for the periods 2010/2011 and 2014/2015. The Ethiopian government’s main development agenda has been poverty eradication. The government has designed, and is implementing, strategies, policies, and plans...

The volume contains the papers accepted and published in the proceedings of the 3rd International symposium entitled: ‘Agrarian Economy and Rural Development - realities and perspectives for Romania’, organized by the Institute of Research for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development,...

The paper explores the novel dimensions of agrarian change and of an agricultural knowledge‐creation culture in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta by examining cases of farmers engaged in knowledge brokering. Farmers empowered with knowledge, and through intensive engagement in networks and communities...

Nowadays, economical reality in developed countries shows that the most important and efficient investments are those related to intelligence, stimulating creativity and knowledge. Investments orientation to these three directions guided to the creation of what literature of specialty calls...

A large body of empirical literature highlights the need for stakeholder participation within the context of policy change and democratic governance. This makes intuitive sense and may appear to be a straightforward process of managing conflicting interests, building consensus, and lining up...

The 61st round of NSS shows that there is a turnaround in employment growth in rural India after a phase of ‘jobless growth’. Paradoxically, this employment growth occurred during a period of wide spread distress in agriculture sector that include low productivity, price instability...

This study uses the example of the German cooperatives to test one hypothesis often advanced by advocates of microcredit institutions: that cooperatives succeeded because they overcame problems caused by asymmetric information and enforcement problems in credit markets.

European policy increasingly supports territorially based rural development in which local actors play a decisive role in realising economically, socially and ecologically responsible development. This paper makes use of four case-studies, from a largely depopulated mountainous area in Galicia,...

Rural retailers in Sweden are currently in need of new strategies in order to meet the increasing competition from urban shopping centers and increased customer mobility. This study examines the how events can influence local retail survival in rural areas. In interviews, local stakeholders...