Intra-European Union trade of dairy products: insights from network analysis
In this paper, we employ a novel, network analysis based approach to gain new insights with respect to the changes...
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Food scares and asymmetric price transmission: the case of the pork market in China
This paper investigates the symmetry of impact from three main food scare events on both the upstream and downstream price...
Assessing the sensitivity of matching algorithms: The case of a natural resource management programme in Honduras
A fundamental challenge in impact evaluations that rely on a quasi-experimental design is to define a control group that accurately...
Agricultural science research impact in the Eastern European Union Member States
Improving agricultural research impact is an important goal for the European Union (EU). The EU Framework 7 project Impresa studied...
The impact of investment support from the Rural Development Programme of the Czech Republic for 2007-2013 on the economic efficiency of farms
European agriculture is highly mechanised and its development is to a large extent shaped by the constant need for investment....
Changes in commuting patterns in the territories covered by LEADER Local Action Groups: Slovakia, 2001 and 2011
In the European Union’s (EU) 2007–2013 programming period, 29 Local Action Groups (LAG) were registered in Slovakia. The rural regions...
Generating space for innovations in agriculture: the AgriSpin project
Good initiatives for sustainable innovations are everywhere. The biotope selects. How can a conducive biotope be created where such initiatives...
Triple helix networks matching knowledge demand and supply in seven Dutch horticulture Greenport regions
This paper investigates the triple helix (industry, knowledge workers and governments) cooperation on knowledge co-production and valorisation for innovation, which...
Action Learning to enable organisational change in rural businesses
Menter a Busnes (MaB), an economic development company based in Wales, UK, has been using group processes and specifically Action...
A new approach for participative rural development in Georgia – reflecting transfer of knowledge and enhancing innovation in a non-European Union context
Despite achieving independence 25 years ago, Georgia is still a country in transition which is striving to overcome wideranging economic...