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Profile of Hired Farmworkers, A 2008 Update
Kandel, William - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2008
sections on legal status, poverty, housing, and use of social services. …
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POTENTIAL OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT TO INCREASE RURAL EMPLOYMENT
Pemberton, Carlisle A.; Mgonja, Mary A. - Caribbean Agro-Economic Society - CAES - 2007
The paper examined whether increasing agricultural output would lead to an expansion of employment in rural areas in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The paper found that the agricultural development problems in the Caribbean and SSA are very similar, especially, declining export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804751
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The LAS approach: a scheme for a sustainable local development of Southern countries rural areas?
Requier-Desjardins, Denis - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
LAS (Localised Agri-food Systems) approach has been viewed until now as either an analysis of a variety of local production system or an anthropological vision of the links between food and places. Although theses approaches are relevant, they prove sometimes hard to differentiate themselves of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693351
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Organization and structure of the chain in the Integrated Projects of Food Chain in Basilicata region: the effects on the new rural dynamics
Conto, Francesco; La Sala, Piermichele; Papapietro, Paolo - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
The introduction of the Integrated Projects of Food Chain requires the development of models capable of interpreting the dynamics of vertical and horizontal coordination between agents and the definition of the issues that most affect the ability of professionals to provide value added to goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693366
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Serrano Cheese and Coalho Cheese: tradition enhancement as an alternative to territorial development in Campos de Cima da Serra and Sertão Sergipano do São Francisco, Brazil
Cruz, Fabiana Thome da; Menezes, Sonia Souza Mendonca - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2010
In this article, we used empirical data from research related to the production of two traditional cheeses in Brazil: the Serrano Cheese and Coalho Cheese, produced, respectively, in Campos de Cima da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, and Sertão Sergipano, in Sergipe. The production characteristics and...
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Where to put the focus in rural development? Changing the focus from funding to learning
Katona-Kovacs, Judit - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics 116 (2014) 1
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082882
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THE ROLE OF CONSULTANCY IN THE PROCESS OF APPLYING FOR EUROPEAN FUNDS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Istudor, Nicolae; Petrescu, Irina Elena - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2009
In the context of the present world economical crisis, the pre-accession and structural funds assigned by the European Union (which have been and still are high for Romania) can represent an important financial support for ensuring the sources of sustaining the investments meant to contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555803
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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - 2008
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women … beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training … beekeepers participating in group-based credit programmes; the survey was conducted in September 2005 in Makueni district of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446370
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Non-Credit Services of Group-Based Financial Institutions: Implications for Smallholder Women’s Honey Income in Arid and Semi Arid Lands of Kenya
Otieno, Peter Shimon; Nyikal, Rose Adhiambo; Mugivane, … - African Association of Agricultural Economists - AAAE - 2008
This paper analyses the effect of non-credit services of joint liability credit institutions on smallholder women … beekeepers’ honey income. The non-credit services offered to the beekeepers are mainly enterprise development services (training … beekeepers participating in group-based credit programmes; the survey was conducted in September 2005 in Makueni district of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068393
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Gender analysis and reform of irrigation management: concepts, cases, and gaps in knowledge; Proceedings of the Workshop of Gender and Water, 15-19 September 1997, Habarana, Sri La...
Baviskar, Shirish - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009398450