Rural Economics - Science topic

I would like to submit a successful experience of resilience by many enterproner women who have invested to revive the aqueducts (Qanat) of their villages.

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Article type may be as a Letter to editor, case report, or descriptive analysis.

In our recent review article, we have conducted a thematic synthesis of China’s rural industrialization through the Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) and generated context-specific lessons that can inform Ethiopia’s rural industrialization. The paper focuses on developing an alternative framework responding to “what” can be drawn and “how” it can be adapted to make the Ethiopian rural economy function properly.

The review work identified the three major driving forces behind China’s growth miracle through in-depth analysis and synthesis. These were policy drivers, entrepreneurial drivers, and sociocultural drivers. The finding showed that the driving forces were successfully held together with formal and informal institutions to form a rural industrialization framework (RIF). The constructed RIF provides a holistic perspective on the rural industrialization process and can be used in promoting the planning and implementation process of rural industrialization in Ethiopia. We also believe that such a holistic approach can be helpful to other developing countries as well.

More details can be found hereunder:

Any opinion or suggestion on the framework, i.e., the RIF, we developed?

In his attempt to modify the limitation of the Perroux growth model, R.P. Mishra developed a hybrid theory (model) combining the concept of Christaller’s CPT, Friedman's concept of Core-Periphery, and Hagerstrand’s Spatial Diffusion Model. My concern is which country (region or locality) in the world successfully implemented this theory (or a variant of it) to operationalize the needs of the people of the predominantly rural countries such as Ethiopia or India (rural people)? How was it made functional? Had there been related policy instruments? Had there been programs or projects? Any pertinent document to support such operationalization?

The dogma of agricultural primacy says: agriculture first, cities later. Jane Jacobs in his famous book The Economy of Cities (1969) is a strong proponent of city-primacy: Cities First—Rural Development Later. Could it be always true that rural (agricultural) development follows innovations in the cities and hence a policy of city-primacy than agricultural-primacy to pursue? Is it always true that agricultural productivity lags behind urban productivity? And, could it be that there is no way to increase rural (agricultural) productivity first and city productivity later in the currently developing countries? Is it true that rural development always waits for innovations in fertilizer, seed, pesticides, etc from the urban sector, not from the rural (agricultural) sector itself? Given multitudes of development theories and models, what could be the third-best alternative way for economic transformation in the currently developing countries?

I have state level agriculture gdp for India, however, I wish to compute district level agriculture gdp for India. Could you please suggest some way out?

I'm looking for any smart villages aplications in your country. I'm interested in examples that involve the enviroment, agricultural, society and technology. I would be grateful for any input.

I want to estimate the impact of internal migration on rural economy in Bangladesh. What will be the dependent variable (s) in this context? is it only be the flow of remittance into the rural area from internal migration?

The model FarmDESIGN has been developped by the Farming Systems Ecology Group in Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to analyse farm performances, to model optimisation scenarios and identify trade-offs and synergies at farm-system level (Groot, Oomen, and Rossing 2012) . It is an integral bio-economic model, that is the model considers all farm components and their interactions within the farm, with the objective of providing an assesment of farm performance through various bio-economic indicators.

I beleive my skills could be a valuable asset for your project. Please contact me for further information.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Best regards,

Antoine Brosseau

Dear all,

Do you know food, human geography or rural development journals that accept short papers (below 4,000 words)? Thank you, Best!

What future for industrial districts? We will discuss it at ERSA2020 in Bozen next August. Would you like to participate with a presentation? Submit an abstract! Here all information about the conference https://ersa.eventsair.com/60…/call-for-abstracts-and-papers #districts #industry4.0 #economicdevelopment #clusters #industry #industrialdevelopment #localdevelopment #papers #specialsession #urbanrurallinkages #sustainabledevelopment #paper #research #economics

What future for industrial districts? We will discuss it at ERSA2020 in Bozen next August. Would you like to participate with a presentation? Submit an abstract! Here all information about the conference https://ersa.eventsair.com/60…/call-for-abstracts-and-papers #districts #industry4.0 #economicdevelopment #clusters #industry #industrialdevelopment #localdevelopment #papers #specialsession #urbanrurallinkages #sustainabledevelopment #paper #research #economics

Dear all,

I am Valentina Cattivelli, a senior researcher at Eurac Research (Bolzano, IT) and I am a guest editor at Sustainability (IF 2.5).

With this, I would like to invite you to submit a paper within a special issue "Social farming for Social innovation and viability in rural areas". This special issue will contribute to the current debate on the green care movement, presenting some innovative solutions and business models to apply social farming as an innovative diversification strategy. The Issue will focus on the impact that social farming activities directly or indirectly have on the social-ecological transformation when fostering environmental knowledge building as well as well-being in and with nature. At the same time, it will evidence how social farming strengthens social capital in rural areas through the dissemination of culture and traditions in agriculture, the provision of social services, and the integration of people at risk of isolation. Additionally, the Issue will present applicable governance and legal framework strategies from their countries that provide legal certainty, regulate the quality of services, and ensure financial viability. Finally, it will investigate how social farming contributes to shifting agricultural activities from purely primary production towards service delivery. This extension of multifunctional farming enables new income opportunities to avoid farm abandonment and to counteract the typical phenomenon of de-growth, which rural areas are dealing with: demographic and agro-structural changes, brain drain, unemployment, vacant houses, or lacking services of general interest. If interested, please get in touch with me.

There is the opportunity to have a reduced fee (under certain conditions).

For additional information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Farming_Social_Innovation

Thank you

Best regards

#socialfarming #socialagriculture #social #sustainability #research #socialinnovation #urbangardens #innovation #callforpaper #papers #italy #europe #agriculture #regionalstudies

I am doing research in financial literacy among rural household. What should I consider: money management, end needs, achieve long term goals, or i have to consider banking knowledge ATM/credit Card usage?

In my view rural development is still an issue for many policy makers in developing and developed countries. Taking this in account I would like to know what are the hottest topics or approaches in rural development regarding to sub-saharan african countries? Is agriculture still a backbone? References are welcome!

For rural economic growth and creating more job opportunity, it becomes imperative to start agri-business in rural areas of India.

Kelly Mix has shown that young children in urban US acquire elements of base-10 thinking as early as 3 years old. But would young children in African villages, where subsistence farming forms the basis of the economy, experience this effect? My own research suggests 'no' - but Mix's research suggests that there may be ways to prime such skills, especially through smartphones. 

I would like to make a research on “the impact and challenges of Rural Electrification in the rural poor of developing countries including the challenges of being unable to pay connection fees....etc”. Can anyone provide me guidance and literature in this area?

thanks in advance for your support.

Sometimes it isn't easy to find a good place to get a membership so as to exchange our knowledge, or sometimes some online trusted organizations inquire too much money just to get an annual membership, so I would love to get a membership in a Horticulture organisation. Thanks for your kind cooperation!

The purpose of this research is to understand entrepreneurial intention of university students in India. Specially from rural and remote parts of Himalayan belt. 

Value addition to raw materials such as primary forest production within national boundaries before export can create greater local employment and stimulate local economies. How can this be tackled in forest-endowed countries in Africa?

I am beginning a literature review with a masters student who will study this question in the context of Eastern Amazonia. We are interested in this question in reference to smallholders and their establishments -- as opposed to youth engaged in daily work for wages, however, these references are also interesting to provide more context. References from outside the region are also interesting.

I am interested in anthropological or sociological approaches (not models).

Looking for a tool for data collection, a quantitative study measures how to manage finances to grow their business. What possible marketing strategy they can adopt, in order to expand their businesses.

How can the marketing strategies empower them to grow their individual market share and increase revenue, how this empowerment will help them grow their individual market share and by extension increase their revenue basket

I am seeking literature using Resource-Based Theory and Physical Capital in Knowledge intensive Firms and in Manufacturing Companies . Thanks!

In my professional work I am thinking to design a market based livelihood alternative program for forest dependent communities in rural areas of Nepal where we have to ensure equitable benefit sharing as a major expected outcome. I would like to know any evidence based research that mentions in what conditions and context market could be responsible and accountable for  pro-poor and gender responsive outcomes?

For example, how does Utility Theory could contribute  to analyze the measurement of the risks of these changes? And how does this measurement could contribute to farmers' decision making?

There can be different benefits for community from brownfield redevelopment in urban areas like:

But i want to know the perspective about Rural Brownfield.

For example how does the rural economy affect urban economies?

The Mediterranean basin has long been a site of temperate fruit and nut production. Currently, new agricultural cultures like pistachio (Pistacia vera), a small tree originating from Central Asia and the Middle East, and Opuntia ficus-indica, a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant in Southern Europe, became plants with interest for large-scale production. So, In order to identify the most suitable areas to introduce those crops I would like to select the new species that are more viable economically.

Good evening!

To begin with, I am using a rural houselhold level survey and I intend to construct a wealth index using the data on the several assets households have such as: livestock, tractors, milking machine, etc.

For this purpose I have decided to use Principal Components Analysis in STATA. So far, I have done all the procedure and  predicted the four components whose variance explain the most part of the data (eigenvalues over 1) but, as it is expected, several observations of those components are negative and thus I cannot use them as a wealth index. In that sense, what can I do to "re-scale" those values in order to obtain a positive wealth index per household (since a negative wealth index does not make much sense)?

Thanks in advance!

Édgar Hernando Sánchez Cuevas

i am currently conducting research on technology based rural entrepreneurship development. I am bit confused about the THEORY to choose.

Next year will be held in portugal a orienteering event with approximately 2000 participants. In order to measure the impact over the local economy of a rural county we need to chose a methodology that give us consistent results.

We are analysing the economic impact of local farmer's market in the Basque Country (Spain), adapting SEED methodology developed by Loyola University of New Orleans. Our region has updated the input-output data, but we would need to calculate the regional multiplier to estimate the impact of the markets over the regional economy.

Which mathematical tools/approaches would be useful, or have been found to be useful, in modelling a 'manual agricultural' market economy amongst a closed group of ten to fifty households totalling up to 500 individuals in which a range of tools, crops and infrastructural facilities might be produced, maintained and exchanged across any desired number of periods and in which arbitrary individual propensities for each behaviour type of each individual can be expressed as temporal vectors, as can externalities such as climate, soil fertility, erosion and arrivals of itinerant sellers of externally produced trade goods?

My background suggests to me that Tensor Calculus is the point at which one should start looking for the means with which to achieve this.  I suspect that the application of such tools to modelling the 'fluid' economic behaviour of social groups is not at an advanced stage of development. Has anybody any information or suggestions?  Are 'game avatars' likely to be a fruitful source of useful algorithms?  Thank you for any assistance or guidance...

We have developed different applications which will enhance  agriculture production and improve livelihoods of rural population. I need few marketing strategies to take these products into market and make them available for the grassroot . 

Someone mentioned to me that Uruguay has land use legislation that takes into account the capability of soils to render certain services. Apparently, this legislation places restrictions on what can be done with prime agricultural land, for example. At the core of this legislation is a very innovative, older piece of legislation that links property taxes to the potential of soils, not to their use.

I am wondering if similar land use legislations exist in other countries. I have heard that Denmark has something along the same lines. Are these the only two countries that have done something in this area?

It would be nice to document such legislations in detail, to encourage other countries to follow suit... So if you have documents that relate to soil-protective legislations in other countries, feel free to send them to me . Thanks!!!

I'm studying motivation as an element in the venture of rural women. As divided by some authors we have three dimensions of motivation "Intrinsic, Goal, and Extrinsic". 

Extrinsic is the situation (displacement by Shapero) that people have to start the business like unemployment, job dissatisfaction, etc.

Goal is what people want to archieve by starting the business. and finally intrinsic motivation help nacent entrepreneur to keep on until they start and it helps business manager to not give up.

Where should I use the GEM approach? "NECESSITY vs OPPORTUNITY - are they goal or displacement?

Thanks.

 What are the basic techniques used to convenience the marginal people to adopt a cost involving technology which will enhance their agriculture production and livelihoods ?. I need information on the marketing or outreach strategies for the implementation of mobile or tablet based technology in rural areas,

Case studies on different Mobile and Tab based technologies for agriculture and rural development, its implementation techniques can also be shared.

Thank you

It is observed that rural businesses are less innovative than those of urban. Apart from variation in location, how can we distinguish variation of rural and urban entrepreneurship?

There used to be only those areas (villages/hamlets) where grid extension is not viable for techno-economic reasons, in the Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG) mode of RGGVY scheme (now DDUGJY) of Rural Electrification in India.   However the Government of India has included, in 2013, villages that get less than 6 hrs of electricity in Decentralized Distributed Generation (DDG). How to identify those villages? Any public forums available to access such data? 

I'd like to understand and evaluate the experience and use of decentralized rural electrification initiatives in Indian villages especially solar PV based microgrids in rural India. I've chosen the study area and i'm in the process of planning my field study. I'm not sure about how do i get the permission from the concerned authorities and proceed for the study. Any suggestions? Any advises? Thanks in anticipation

I am working on the issue of livelihood diversification of farm households in rural Assam. A preliminary field visit shows that farm households, in most of the cases, are engaged in other non-farm activities besides farming. While measuring incomes earned via daily wage employment is straightforward, how should I measure incomes earned via self employed activities like petty trading, rickshaw pulling etc.

Please advice if there is an appropriate method.

In our study, we are developing a combined heat and power system with microgrid interfacing. It will be interesting to learn from researchers in Africa, India, China, Brazil, Mexico, etc. how off-grid microgrid technology are commercialised to the benefit of the community it serves. 

I've been doing a study in rural areas of a developing country where it's hard to meet relevant people/farmers at their home (due to seasonality, ages etc.). Is there any scientific sampling method that allows gathering individual observations (by inviting them) into one place for interviewing but still ensures randomness? The problem is that I don't have the full list of residents.

I'm doing my MS on the evaluation of tourism-oriented villages based on the economy of space. I appreciate your comments.

Importance of social business

Importance of social capital

Urban-rural relations

Rural industrialization.

Nowadays the rural entrepreneurs are increasing at a faster rate due to a paradigm shift from production led development to market led development. So, the measurement of entrepreneurship development and management index is the only way to get the attitude of the rural entrepreneurs towards development.

I am asking for any recent studies exploring the agricultural terms of trade (prices of agricultural commodities compared with the price of farm inputs) particularly for small farms in the developing countries.

Looking for studies that link economic development with the accessability of remote communities. In particular, I'm interested in very small island communities, but similar concepts might apply to other remote areas.

Related to devloping countries

Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia face challenges of reducing poverty and ensuring livelihood and economic security to its population. What factors contribute to reduce the level of poverty.

I have the sustainable livelihood framework by DFID 1999, but it seem too old?

Could anyone recommend a current approach?