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Dreaming of fecundity in rural society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In Albanian village society, the main characteristic of the social status of women, and their only function that meets social approval, is their aptitude for procreation and motherhood. And the Albanian child is first and foremost a son, who will succeed
Doja, A.
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Investigating Afghanistan's Rural Development Challenges and their Solutions [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Rūstāyī, 2021
Rural development is one of the main concerns of developing countries. The consequences of lack of development in rural areas such as widespread poverty, unemployment and migration have led to more attention to rural development.
Muhammad Asef Shaiq   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

For Whom is the Rural Economy Resilient? Initial Effects of Drought in Western Sudan [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This discussion piece addresses two recent debates: entitlement theory and the resilience of rural systems. The authors find that in western Sudan entitlement theory provides a specific and useful framework for understanding the nature of the crisis ...
Gray, Leslie C., Kevane, Michael
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Examining factors for the adoption of silvopastoral agroforestry in the Colombian Amazon

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Current land use systems in the Amazon largely consist of extensive conventional productivist livestock operations that drive deforestation. Silvopastoral systems (SPS) support a transition to low carbon production if they intensify in sympathy with the ...
C. O. Alvarado Sandino   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early Modern Echo Chambers. Material Improvement, Social Inequality, and the Restricted Circulation of Knowledge in Pre-Industrial Bavaria

open access: yesJournal for the History of Knowledge, 2022
Drawing on the concept of chambered knowledge, this article focuses on the problem of non-circulation of knowledge across social groups in pre-industrial Europe.
Verena Lehmbrock
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Vulnerability of Dairy Farms Challenged by Johne's Disease to Changes in Farm Payment Support

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
Johne's disease is an endemic contagious bacterial infection of ruminants which is prevalent in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. It can lower financial returns on infected farms by reducing farm productivity through output losses and control ...
Shailesh Shrestha   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural Romania in the new capitalism: 1990-2020. Pro Universitaria, Bucharest, 2022. Iulian Stănescu & Flavius Mihalache (editors)

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2023
Authors and coordinators Stănescu Iulian and Mihalache Flavius capture a moving picture of the Romanian village, as it was inherited after the Romanian Revolution, transforming, and reinventing itself in an interesting story of an adventure between ...
Sebastian Fitzek
doaj   +1 more source

The Level of Farmers' Knowledge of the Negative Effects of Using Pesticides in Some Villages in Qalyubia Governorate [PDF]

open access: yesArab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021
The study aimed to determine the level of knowledge of the surveyed farmers on the neg-ative effects of the use of chemical pesticides, and their sources of information in this field, and determine the significance of the relation-ship between the level ...
Eman Abuqamar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some Geographical Aspects of Rural Development with view of Montenegro: A Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper discusses some geographical aspects of rural development with view of Montenegro. According to development of a heterogeneous, rural areas lag behind the urban and industrial, so the problem must be given more attention.
BULATOVIC, Jelisavka, RAJOVIC, Goran
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Vulnerability assessment of Iran's rural-farmer households during COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an emergency around the world, especially in rural communities, and imposed great disasters on human societies, so it's devastating effects on mental health indicators, economy, environment, and social relations are known to ...
Mohammad Shokati Amghani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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