Rural development specialists working with agricultural statistics confront the tension between collecting data for the purposes of measuring farm sector performance versus that of assessing farm household well-being. While it is recognized that the activities of the farm enterprise and farm...

The paper is focused on assessing the stability of the agricultural sector, depending on the social cohesion and structural socio-economic changes of rural society. Since 2001, rural areas have been showing a higher population growth than cities in the Czech Republic. This change is reflected...

This study examines how the Covid-19 pandemic crises has not only modified networks and rhythms of human movement and migratory flows on both a global and local scale; yet it also has weakened the hegemony of the prevailing paradigm that considers urban densification as "the" way to achieve...

Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where democratically elected village heads receive usufruct rights over a piece of communal village...

One explanation for the increasing prevalence of stunting in South Africa over the past 15 years while other development indicators have improved is that Big Food retail chains have been contributing to a low quality diet across the country, particularly in poor urban households. We thus use...