Assessing the impacts of cassava technology on poverty reduction in Africa
In Africa, there have been successes in cassava research in terms of the development of production technologies, particularly improved varieties...
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Market participation by smallholder rice farmers in Tanzania: a double hurdle analysis
Smallholder farmers account for over 90 per cent of domestic rice production in Tanzania. Their participation in markets provides opportunities...
Human and social capital in rural areas
This thematic issue of Studies in Agricultural Economics is composed of papers that examine human and social capital in rural...
A modelling project in Poland: the social and intellectual capital aspects
Several dozen simple forecasting models for a range of socio-economic indicators were developed for the NUTS 2 region of Mazowieckie...
The effect of human capital on labour productivity of farms in Poland
This study aims to determine the relationship between total, average and marginal human factor productivity and the level of education...
Understanding the process of social innovation in rural regions: some Hungarian case studies
In recent years, social innovation has been gaining more attention, not only in the scholarly literature and in public discourse...
Rural innovation activities as a means for changing development perspectives – An assessment of more than two decades of promoting LEADER initiatives across the European Union
Since the 1990s the LEADER approach has very powerfully addressed the spirit of mobilising actors in the countryside through focusing...
Innovation in rural development in Puglia, Italy: critical issues and potentialities starting from empirical evidence
Since the 1990s, innovation has been recognised as having a key role in the development and competitiveness of European rural...
Participation of disadvantaged groups and governance in the LEADER and PRODER programmes in Andalucía, Spain
The involvement of disadvantaged groups in European Union neo-endogenous rural development programmes, such as the LEADER programme, must be a...
Perceptions of the support granted to female entrepreneurs in Romania: between anticipation and assessment
In the 2007-2013 European Union programming period, Romania benefi tted from assistance provided through the Human Resources Development Operational Programme,...