Numerous national transfer programs around the world are designed with uniform benefit schedules imposed by central governments, but implemented by local governments. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia, the second largest safety net in Sub Saharan Africa, is one such program....

The article presents the outcomes of rural dwellers’ migrations in the economic and social aspect. Apart from defining the phenomenon of external migration against the background of current social trends, also a review of motives for migration including the push factors (home country) and the...

The article presents the idea and and the profile of agricultural productive cooperatives with regard to the object of their activity, their numbers and their spatial distribution in Poland. The article mentions also the organizational models of cooperativism in some EU countries and shows the...

The problem of employment in the agricultural sector has been brought up. A triple division of the working population between three main sectors in Poland has been introduced, pointing at changes in employment in the last few years. An analysis of statistical data allowed for observation of a...

The paper focuses on the issue of food aid as a kind of implementation of good governance and social responsibility of rich countries towards poor countries. The study may be characterized as a review. In the first part, hunger as a global problem of the modern world economy is taken under...

This paper builds a model determining optimal capacities of diversion dams or water transfer projects. The model incorporates stochastic inflows to the dams and the role of the dam capacity in reducing overflows, and gives a closed-form expression of the marginal benefit of capacities....

We estimate the impact of Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program using an economywide approach. We find potentially substantial net benefits with indirect benefits accounting for about two-fifths of total benefits. Due to these indirect benefits, the cutoff at which lower fertilizer yield...

Multifunctional rural areas, multifunctional agriculture and multifunctional farms deliver many various marketable and non-marketable goods for society (including public goods). In recent years, discussion of the issue of public goods provided by rural areas, agriculture and farms became...

The paper reviews the institutional structure or strategic framework, the Wine Industry Transformation Charter and Scorecard, adopted on 31 July 2007, through which good governance and social responsibility programmes are fostered, implemented and monitored in the South African wine industry. In...