Rural development was and continues to be considered an essential imperative, being one of the reasons for which the concept of sustainable development and diversification in the rural space has registered a high emergence frequency and debates in the specialty literature. The sustainable and...

The Romanian rural household is the socio-economic unit for which the agricultural activity continues to be the main source of income or at least of supplementing incomes in the form of self-consumption; thus, most rural households overlap the agricultural household farms/peasant...

Fostering innovation-driven regional development has become a major priority for public policy. Thus innovation is a crucial issue in Rural Development Programmes (RDP) to overcome challenges like economic development and demographic change. One part of RDP funded by the European Union, which...

Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) – in rural areas implemented as LEADER – is a well-established “territorial delivery mechanism”. The research topic of this contribution is to discuss the influence of different variables of the LEADER implementation on the performance of this...

The present work presents an analysis of rural education compared to the urban education to support the formulation of educational policies for the rural areas. This area suffered for many years with the absence of specific educational policies, especially since the 1960s, when agricultural...

Agricultural workers are exposed to many risks during their life cycle and are particularly vulnerable to covariate risks, such as droughts, armed conflict and pandemics. Despite the great potential of social protection policies to protect this segment of the population, agricultural workers are...

Access to external finance is a key challenge for the creation, survival and growth of SMEs. This article delves into the “weak funding” handicap of rural small firms (SEs): the access to bank financing and the substitutive role of trade credit for entrepreneurs in rural areas when they...

PARI's main goal is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India by supporting the scaling of proven innovations in the agri-food sector in collaboration with all relevant actors. PARI accompanies specified innovations with ex-ante impact research and...

This paper examines the factors affecting the decision of migrants to return home in rural areas and their length of stay in cities with a focus on shocks and rural development policies. We use the unique Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) data. Our results reveal that the decision to...

Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ending energy poverty is a key development priority because energy plays an enabling role for human wellbeing and economic activities. Planning electricity access...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie besteht in der Rekonstruktion und Analyse von Digitalisierungsdiskursen, die auf 2018 und 2019 besuchten Tagungen zu sozialen Dienstleistungen, Ehrenamt und ländlicher Entwicklung beobachtet wurden. Auf Tagungen geben Akteurinnen und Akteure ihrem...

Massive and rapid urbanization has led to population loss in rural areas, particularly in emerging and developing countries like China. As a result, houses in rural areas become vacant, and the house prices in cities, at the same time, skyrocket. While the research on the vacant farmhouses...

Creativity and innovation play increasingly important roles in modern societies. In both developed and developing countries alike, artistic, scientific and economic creativity accounts for significant portions of GPD and trade in creative goods is an increasingly important contributor to global...

Aim: This paper presents a waste stream exploratory study with the purpose of identifying opportunity gaps to reduce environmental and health risks within the household waste stream in a small rural population in Northwestern Mexico by following the waste management hierarchy. Design / Research...

This paper examines the factors affecting the decision of migrants to return home in rural areas and their length of stay in cities with a focus on shocks and rural development policies. We use the unique Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) data. Our results reveal that the decision to...

For many years the discussion about rural development in Brazil was left on the sidelines. The Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, and the increased use of technology sparked an incipient and localized debate on regional and rural development. In the 1980s the discussion lost strength due...

Creativity and innovation play increasingly important roles in modern societies. In both developed and developing countries alike, artistic, scientific and economic creativity accounts for significant portions of GPD and trade in creative goods is an increasingly important contributor to global...

Monitoring and evaluation have gained importance in recent decades in development cooperation to increase evidence, and thereby aid effectiveness. However, the focus on measuring results needs to be coordinated with other strategically important aspects of the aid and development effectiveness...

Making lumpy human capital investments is difficult, particularly since returns may accrue with a significant time lag. Lack of commitment impedes savings and diverts funds from intended investments. We draw on a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural India to provide the first evidence...

Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Ending energy poverty is a key development priority because energy plays an enabling role for human wellbeing and economic activities. Planning electricity access...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the impact of a growth enhancement support scheme (GESS) on youth development in informal farm entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Its special focus is to investigate the impact of the GESS on rural youths' adoption of new technologies needed...

Marginal rural areas are undergoing major pressures from the effects of globalization, especially when no alternative has been found to conventional extensive agriculture and a lack of investments and vision squeezes the income of farmers. The objective of the paper is to show how Integrated...

As a growing option for small farmers, alternative food networks (AFN) have attracted the attention of researchers around the world. Nevertheless, not much focus is given to box-schemes as a format itself. The nomenclature is often associated with community-supported agriculture (CSA) and...

Leadership is critical for the viability of rural groups. The way in which leadership is legitimised can mediate leader and group member behaviour in the face of social dilemmas. Yet there has been scant research on leader‐follower dynamics in naturally occurring groups. Highlighting the case...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie besteht in der Rekonstruktion und Analyse von Digitalisierungsdiskursen, die auf 2018 und 2019 besuchten Tagungen zu sozialen Dienstleistungen, Ehrenamt und ländlicher Entwicklung beobachtet wurden. Auf Tagungen geben Akteurinnen und Akteure ihrem...

In vielen strukturschwachen ländlichen Regionen Europas hat sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten eine Abwärtsspirale in Gang gesetzt. Zwar sind die konkreten wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Bedingungen in den einzelnen Regionen Europas oft sehr unterschiedlich, dennoch zeigt sich tendenziell...

In fact, throughout Europe there is an abundance of innovative initiatives to be seen in the countryside (Olmedo/van Twuijver/O'Shaughnessy 2019), advanced by rural inhabitants, social entrepreneurs, or both in collaboration, and which is here termed "social innovation". To social innovation one...