The livestock sector in Ecuador represents an important productive sector because it involves rural labor, produces foods that are part of the daily diet of people (meat and milk), other goods and raw material consumption. The interest in issues related to production incentives is always...

The academic "organizational and tourism sustainable development" body analyzed methodological tool of the mesh of the logical framework, establish consistency in the phenomenon to analyze and emphasizing the object of study in this case is highlighted as a Agritouristic development. This had as...

The grocery goods healthy products, as the blueberry and other berry fruits, have grown up substantially as a demand increasement effect in the market of that kind of goods. There are some studies about this issue, and the project purpose is to contribute with relevant information to increase...

Governing the process of economic transformation is one of the most prominent issues arising since the fall of the Iron Curtain. After the successful transition model of the Central and Eastern European countries and their EU accession, the main anchors of the EU enlargement are directed into...

The paper provides an analysis of the effect of the EU membership on the agricultural and rural counties of Hungary, paying particular attention to the introduction of the CAP and Cohesion Policy. Moving from the mixed case study approach introduced for the evaluation of Rural Development...

Using household survey data from a random sample of 180 households in Gweru and Lupane district, we found the distribution of vulnerability among households was skewed with mean 0.76. On average 89% of the households had a probability of more than 0.5 making them vulnerable to food insecurity...

Agriculture in Malawi is vulnerable to the impacts of changing climate. Adaptation is identified as one of the options to abate the negative impacts of the changing climate. This study analyzed the factors influencing different climate change adaptation choices by smallholder farmers in Malawi....

The recent proliferation of short food supply chains (SFSCs), such as the direct sale, meets farmers’ needs to valorize local food productions and increase their profitability. The short food supply chain achieves the theoretical concept of sustainability in economic, environmental and social...

The participation of smallholders in export horticulture is often seen as problematic because of the high transaction costs involved and this has further been exacerbated by the introduction of food safety standards in the destination markets. Farmers have to participate in institutional...

The paper argues that basic rights approach is more applicable food policy in Africa than the traditional basic needs approach. The problem pertains to the introduction of right to food as a policy innovation in an environment wherein policy authorities are generally averse to rights issues that...