Strengthening the positive links between organic farming and a sustainable development of rural areas [PDF]
Organic farming can play a major role in the sustainable development of rural areas. Our assumption is that it supports the finding of a new balance between societal demands for high environmental quality, the pressures resulting from competition in a ...
Knickel, Karlheinz +2 more
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Improving Rural Educational Attainment [PDF]
More often than not, policymakers focus on school-based strategies to spur improvements in the educational progress of students. The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, which demands greater school accountability for student performance, is a case in point ...
Glenn D. Israel +2 more
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Catalytic Community Development [PDF]
Community development and economic development in rural areas increasingly go hand in hand. Today, counterpoint to purely free market approaches to economic development -- in which large multinationals are the primary engines of change -- calls for more ...
Kenneth Pigg, Ted Bradshaw
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Adaptation of Temporary Labour Migrants from Central Asia in Rural Russian South
The article is focused on the analysis of integration problems of internal and external migrants in the rural environment of the South of Russia, as well as problems of host communities’ perception of social competition and ethnic and cultural distance ...
Ekaterina M. Arutjunova
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Analysis of the rural community behavior in the Area of Electoral Geography (Case study: Varzaqan county) [PDF]
The present research has been carried out to analyze the behavior of the rural community of Varzaqan in the territory of electoral geography and the approach used in it is "spatial-behavioral".
Aghil Khaleghi +2 more
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At the Razor's Edge: Building Hope for America's Rural Poor [PDF]
Hurricane Katrina exposed the poverty that lay in our midst, and although the images served to remind the country of its enduring inequality, the picture was one of urban poverty.
Leif Jensen
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Increasing consumption, decreasing support: a multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars [PDF]
This article looks at intergenerational relations in two Chakkliyar neighbourhoods in rural Tamil Nadu. Post-1991 economic changes, together with longer-term changes in the rural economy and state policies, have significantly widened the customary ‘needs
Vera-Sanso, Penny
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In a paper prepared on the basis of historical-demographic analysis of registers of thoseburied in the parish Detva in central Slovakia inthe 19th century, we focus on selected social minoritiesand the circumstances of their life, andespecially death. In
Ján Golian
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Farář jako člen venkovské elity? K otázce postavení katolického kléru ve venkovské společnosti českých zemí v 17. a 18. století // The parish priest as a member of a rural elite? On the position of the catholic clergy in the rural society of the Czech lands in the 17th and 18th century [PDF]
A priest administering a parish did not live in the Early Modern times, despite the ideals of the post-Tridentine Church, in isolation from the surrounding world.
Pavel Pumpr
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This research analyses the impacts of the family organization on the diversity of income sources and the sustainability and the dynamics of rainfed farming systems of Sahelian Niger, through an individual-centred agent-based model which variables were ...
Mehdi Saqalli +3 more
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