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Lagging rural areas: detection, diagnosis and planning development

open access: yes
The overall objective of the present paper is to identify and analyse the territorial factors that influence the economy and demography of rural areas in Catalonia.
Sort, J., Gonzalez, Manuela
core  

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Gender differences in psychotropic medication prescribing in a rural area of Catalonia: a community-based observational study. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
Torrubia-Pérez E   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reducing the Digital Divide in Rural Manitoba: A Proposed Framework

open access: yes, 2014
Outside of larger centres across Canada public policies and corporate investments have left 2 million rural households under-served with broadband network capacity.
Girard, Roger, Ashton, William
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Subarachnoid neurocysticercosis in a rural area of the Bolivian Chaco: A population-based survey through the use of a novel urine antigen assay. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Negl Trop Dis
Barbiero A   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Public and private affairs marketing in rural tourism development

open access: yes
In Romania, the agro and rural tourism started as potential sources of living and become an alternative for the classic tourism. As we rise up on the presented papers in 2003, even if there is a significant development of the rural tourism, it is not ...
Grigorescu, Adriana
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How Young Adults Perceive Their Rural Ohio Communities

open access: yes, 2014
This study analyzes the trends and issues related to the retention of young adults in Northwest Ohio. Researchers sampled over 340 young adults (25-34 years of age) from 8 counties in Northwest Ohio. Results highlight rural community perceptions of young
Hedrick, Jason   +3 more
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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