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Rural realities

open access: yes, 2013
De dagelijkse, lokale omgeving speelt een belangrijke rol in het leven en welzijn van jongeren op het platteland van Estland. Dat blijkt uit het promotieonderzoek van Elen Trell, die met haar proefschrift inzicht biedt in de alledaagse ‘rurale realiteit’ in Estland.
openaire   +1 more source

Supporting Visual Annotation Cues in a Live 360 Panorama-based Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration

open access: yes, 2019
We propose enhancing live 360 panorama-based Mixed Reality (MR) remote collaboration through supporting visual annotation cues. Prior work on live 360 panorama-based collaboration used MR visualization to overlay visual cues, such as view frames and ...
Billinghurst, M.   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

El mundo rural en los fabliaux: el campesino, el herrero y el molinero [PDF]

open access: yesÇédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2013
The combination of narrative with considerably long dialogues provides the fabliau with an extraordinary sense of life. Even though the short extent and comic character of this type of narrative prevents its use as an exhaustive source of information on ...
María del Pilar Mendoza-Ramos
doaj  

Facing Reality in Rural America

open access: yesJournal of Extension, 1991
In characterizing rural America, often false assumptions are made. The myth of a close-knit community and extended family structures should first be dispelled. As a transient society, not everyone in a typical rural community knows each other. Neighborly visits, once prevalent in rural areas, are no longer characteristic.
openaire   +1 more source

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can a rural renaissance be a reality?

open access: yesEuropean View
This article explores the factors contributing to and consequences of rural depopulation. The important economic and non-economic contribution of the agricultural sector to rural communities is discussed. It is argued that the role of agriculture is often underappreciated and misrepresented in public discourse, in particular in the climate change ...
openaire   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical and propositional questions to transform rural schools into a place

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
The article aims to present some principles and actions for rural schools to become spaces of belonging, and to incorporate, into their practices, the multi-scalar and contradictory reality of the community where they are located.
Roberto Antônio Finatto   +1 more
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