Local innovation in a global context: documenting farmer initiatives in land husbandry through WOCAT

Design in Context Product design through local initiatives

Current notions of sustainability within the field of product manufacturing largely depend on business strategies that are predominantly 'top-down' approaches. However, it is theoretically and practically naive and also unworkable for conventionally structured large manufacturing businesses to simply put on the vestments of sustainability. Many of the structures, philosophies and raisons d'etre...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

Social Network Analysis: Local and Global Centrality as the Communication Network Structure in the Beef Cattle Farmer Groups

The dynamic among farmer institutions has essential problems to be addressed, especially regarding the pattern and process of communication interactions developing farmer institutions. Therefore, an assembly of agribusiness information within the communication network of the farmer group is of primary interest for our study. This study aims to analyze the agribusiness network structure of beef ...

On Different Characteristics of Iranian Farmer Women in Rural Development Activities Based on Animal Husbandry

Rural women play a significant role in domestic and socio-economic life of the society so that national development is not possible without developing this important and substantial segment of our society. Given the importance of women in agriculture, this study was conducted to examine the role of Iranian women in the farm management decision-making processed concerning animal husbandry. The s...

Innovation through Global Collaboration

Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected for their unique capabilities, and operat...