Based on relatively recent household survey data (1986-2000) in rural China, this paper analyzes the composition and inequality in non-land wealth. We first document the evolution of rural households wealth during the sample period. Our results show that the housing assets have played a dominant...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en estudiar el desenvolvimiento de las políticas de desarrollo rural en la Unión Europea (UE) y en los nuevos estados miembros de la UE de Europa Central y Oriental, así como en los candidatos Rumanía y Bulgaria, donde el sector agrario sigue un proceso...

The document summarises the results of twenty years of coordination of research programmes on urban food supply in Africa and Asia in collaboration with national researchers. The main research questions are the following ones: What is the role of geographical and relational proximity in the...

This paper aims to highlight some paradoxes of the agrarian transformation in Hungary and Poland and the ways they impinge on the working of private and cooperative farming.The first section reassesses the debate on the specificities of cooperative management in the light of the...

This article analyses the centrality of cooperativism in promoting sustainable territorial development, focusing on valorising territory-specific resources and promoting food and nutritional security through family-farmers' agrifood-processing enterprises. In theoretical terms, it combines the...

Traditionally, the university is understood to be a custodian/depositary of common values, knowledge and inheritance of human cultures and civilization. In contrast to mere libraries, as well as to the complexity of the Internet, the uniqueness of the university consists of the fact that it...

Traditionally, the university is understood to be a custodian/depositary of common values, knowledge and inheritance of human cultures and civilization. In contrast to mere libraries, as well as to the complexity of the Internet, the uniqueness of the university consists of the fact that it...

Little is known about the effectiveness of information strategies on energy conservation in developing countries. In this study, we conduct a field experiment in an apartment complex in India to test how information about electricity usage impacts the electricity consumption of urban middle...

Global warming forces consumer and corporate activities towards sustainability. During Covid-19, online shopping relevance also increased significantly. Anyway, there is no present research critically reviewing sustainability in online shopping directly. This research gap is filled with a...

What are the drivers of regional development in Switzerland? The residential economy renews the understanding of growth and development. Until now, attention is largely focused on jobs that export outside the region with the idea that other jobs will be generated by the expenditure of that...