Rural migration and its relationship to the rural environment have attracted increasing research interest in recent decades. Rural migration constitutes a key component of human population movement, while rural areas contain most of the world's natural resources such as land and forests. This study empirically evaluates a conceptual framework incorporating rural household livelihoods as an inte...

According to the Ahlowalia hypothesis (1995), the growth of total factor productivity (TFP) beside infrastructure investments of government lead to income inequality decrease in rural areas of countries. The main objective of this study is to investigate the effects of public investments such as agricultural R&E, road, education and irrigation on income inequality in rural areas of Iran. In ord...

The waste of agricultural products is considered as one of the major problems in Iranian agricultural sector. The present study is a descriptive-survey one in nature that focused on exploring correlations and comparison. Data were collected through a number of questionnaires and were analyzed by SPSS. The relationships between dependent and independent variables were analyzed by obtaining the P...

This paper studies the effects of rural infrastructure development on agricultural production technical efficiency, using data from the second agricultural census of China. Employing Data Envelopment Analysis, this paper first estimates agricultural production technical efficiency of each administrative area of China. A Tobit model is then applied to study the effects on agricultural production...

Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ulls väg 28, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden Department of Ethnology, Comparative Religion and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Correspondence Stina Powell, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultu...

INTRODUCTION Rural Road connectivity is a key component of rural development, since it promotes access to economic and social services, thereby generating increased agricultural productivity, non-agriculture employment as well as non-agricultural productivity, which in turn expands rural growth opportunities and real income through which poverty can be reduced. A study (Fan et al. 1999) carried...

We develop a general framework for multifunctional agriculture, which includes not only public goods but also rural viability as a non-public good item. We contribute to the literature in two ways. First, we demonstrate how the broader definition of multifunctional agriculture differs from the agrienvironmental multifunctionality, and how agri-environmental policy should be reformed to include ...

The XIX International Symposium of Ergonomic, “Work Safety and Occupational Hygiene in Agriculture-Practical Problems Related with Work Protection in Agriculture” was held from 3-4 December 2012, at the Witold Chodźko Institute of Rural Health in Lublin, in which participated 89 researchers and practitioners from Poland and Ukraine. The Symposium was organized by the Institute of Rural Health i...

A descriptive approach of labour migration is analysed in a context of regional agricultural labour movement following the enlargement of the European Union. Considering the different agricultural systems of the candidate countries and their need of restructering their agricultural sector, it has been found that fears of mass migration of agricultural labour from CEEC to the EU after enlargemen...

Organic agriculture in Colombia has the potential to transform the Colombian agricultural landscape, provide sustainable and dignified livelihoods mainly for small rural growers, peasants and indigenous communities across the nation. These communities are usually located in large rural reserve areas, native forests or in available fallow land. As a tropical country with abundant natural resourc...