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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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Rural digital social innovation for health and social care: A systematic review
SSM - Health SystemsDigitalization in the health sector has created numerous opportunities for social innovators and change-makers. However, there is a lack of integrated knowledge of how the latest technological changes have impacted social innovators from marginalized ...
Eric Ping Hung Li +9 more
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Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2022 Indigenous people have deep local knowledge of environmental sustainability and natural resource utilization, which are sources of innovations that often are drivers for economic growth in rural areas.
Retno Kusumastuti +4 more
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An Impact Analysis of Microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina [PDF]
, 2007 This paper applies the financing constraint approach to study whether microfinance institutions improved access to credit for microenterprises in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hartarska, Valentina, Nadolnyak, Denis
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Social enterprise development in Ireland: making a case for actor-network-theory [PDF]
Journal of Business and Socio-Economic DevelopmentPurpose – The development of social enterprises in Ireland holds much promise with regards to the potential to create innovation and growth within local economies.
Úna Quinn +2 more
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Land Consolidation in Rural China: Historical Stages, Typical Modes, and Improvement Paths
Land, 2023 Land consolidation is an important means to optimize land-use structure and improve the level of intensive and economical use of land, and it is also a critical measure to coordinate economic and social development and promote cultivated-land protection.
Yuanzhi Guo, Jieyong Wang
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Building a “community co-operative” at Hill Holt Wood [PDF]
, 2009 This article documents the business history of Hill Holt Wood (HHW), a community-run social enterprise based in rural Lincolnshire. It aims to shed light on the issues and obstacles associated with developing a rural enterprise into a ‘community co ...
Frith, Kirk +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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Empowering the role of village owned enterprises (BUMDes) for rural development: case of Indonesia
Jurnal Akuntansi, Manajemen dan Ekonomi, 2018 Poor economic condition, unemployement, quality education and lack of other basic infrastructures are the common problems of rurals in Indonesia and in many other countries. The rural potentials have not been optimally explored, hence a place to birth it
Kiky Srirejeki
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