This paper uses a unique representative household budget survey from the Asian Development Bank to analyze the determinants of permanent and seasonal migration in rural areas of the Kyrgyz Republic and compare them with determinants of other local income generating activities. We have found that...

Quality standards in food-processing industries have become a growing challenge for farmers in developing countries. This challenge is the target of collective action-based programs aiming at framing the cooperation context and the rules system that would enable a local community to turn...

The present volume is the collection of the conference papers presented on the 11th International Symposium Agricultural economics and Rural Development - Realities and Perspectives for Romania, organized by the Research Institute for Agrarian Economy and Rural Development during 19 of November,...

The purpose of this paper is to outline key emerging and conceptual issues in the development of the rural non-farm economy in less developed countries (LDCs) and transition economies. It is based on a conceptual framework where the rural non-farm economy (RNFE) is discussed as being either part...

Research shows that rural populations across Africa, Asia and Latin America rely on rural non-farm economies (RNFE) for between 30 percent and 50 percent of their income. These activities are evidently economically important, but they are also extremely complex and difficult to measure, making...

Drought is the most important and destructive climate phenomenon which is usually of importance in a regional scale. Therefore, this study offers a fuzzy-based hybrid index in order to analyze the regional drought in Abadan and khoramshahr, Khuzestan, Iran. Influencing all aspects of human...

This paper investigates the relationship between EU agricultural subsidies and the outflow of labor from agriculture. We use more representative subsidy indicators and a wider coverage (panel data from 210 EU regions over the period 2004-2014) than has been used before. The data allow to better...

For a long time, fostering the prosperity of family farming has been among desirable policy goals in Latin America. The notion of family farming underlying those goals and the related analyses is rather imprecise and is frequently used very loosely. This paper critically revises the concept of...

The European rural factors markets have been changed rapidly. This current paper adds analyses of rural factor markets in the European Union candidate countries with focus on three candidate countries: Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey. We analyze aggregate capital market...

This paper investigates the relationship between EU agricultural subsidies and the outflow of labor from agriculture. We use more representative subsidy indicators and a wider coverage (panel data from 210 EU regions over the period 2004-2014) than has been used before. The data allow to better...