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Christophe Albaladejo
Local Territorial Insertion of Cattle Breeders and Artificialization of Production Systems: Logics of Cattle Feeding in the Southwest of Argentine Pampa
Muhammad Arsyad
Resticking Agriculture in Indonesian Economy: Facts, Policy Impact Issues and Poverty Reduction
Passanan Assavarak
Peace Making: Religions Diversity in the Midst of Peace: Case Study in Samudsongkram Province
T.M.F. Barbosa
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Bernadette Bock
Rural Water Supply in Namibia: Effects on Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods
David Burch
The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems
Joaquín Careaga
Modernity and Ethnicity in Mexican Rural Society
Silvina Cecilia Carrizo
Paradoxes of Biofuels in Argentina
Marcelo Champredonde
Paradoxes of Biofuels in Argentina
Marcelo Champredonde
Local Territorial Insertion of Cattle Breeders and Artificialization of Production Systems: Logics of Cattle Feeding in the Southwest of Argentine Pampa
Tzy-Ling Chen
A Study on Female Organic Farmers' Use of Information Communication Channels for Acquiring Farming Innovations
Kyoung Mann Cho
Ecological-social Relationship in the Quest for Community and its Breakdown
Yoon Ji Choi
An Analysis of Meaning on Rural Woman's Legal Status in Agricultural Policy of Korea
Yoon Ji Choi
Development of an Educational Program for Rural Woman Leader's Activity in Local Committee
Yoon Ji Choi
Evaluation of an Educational Program for Rural Women's Motivation to sSolve Problem Based on Gender Equality
Yoon Ji Choi
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Joost Dessein
Between Agency and Structure: An Analysis of Three Flemish Cooperatives
Thomas Falk
Rural Water Supply in Namibia: Effects on Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods
Hermes Morales Grosskopf
Tradition and Change in the Southern Cone of America: Limits and Potentialities of Multi-Agent Systems as Methodological Tools for the Study of the Social Impacts of Territorial Dynamics
Hermes Morales Grosskopf
Limits and Potentialities of Multi-Agent Systems as Methodological Tools for the Study of the Social Impacts of Territorial Dynamics
Martine Guibert
Paradoxes of Biofuels in Argentina
Gyung Mee Gim
An Analysis of Meaning on Rural Woman's Legal Status in Agricultural Policy of Korea
Gyung Mee Gim
Evaluation of an Educational Program for Rural Women's Motivation to sSolve Problem Based on Gender Equality
Gyung Mee Gim
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Jennifer Hauck
Claim and Reality of Community-based Water Management at the Example of Rural Fisheries in Ghana
Shuji Hisano
Explaining Productivity Variation among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Tanzania
Nakamichi Hitomi
The Development of Alternative Production and Consumption Activities Related to Food Safety and Security and Associated Gender Issues
V. Homem
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Tadahiro Iizaka
Making Device for Sustainable Agriculture Systems: A Case Study of Japanese Farmers Markets
Koichi Ikegami
The Meaning of the Fair Trade in the Context of the Republic of South Africa
M Zulfiquar Ali Islam
Survival Strategies of the Female Displacees in Rural Bangladesh: A Study of Two Riparian Villages on the Right Bank of Jamuna
Kyeong Ha Kang
An Analysis of Meaning on Rural Woman's Legal Status in Agricultural Policy of Korea
Kyeong Ha Kang
Development of an Educational Program for Rural Woman Leader's Activity in Local Committee
Kyeong Ha Kang
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Rezaul Karim
Women in Bangladesh Civil Service: Vulnerability and Challenges
Charalambos Kasimis
The Occupational Structure and Mobility of Migrants in the Greek Rural Labour Markets
Chie Katayama
Maternity Leave of Farmers and Potentiality of Family Management Agreement in Japan
Yoshio Kawamura
Strengthening Sulawesi Rural Community Development to Support Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia
Tokuya Kawate
Change and Problems About Women Farmers in Japan
Michael Kirk
Rural Water Supply in Namibia: Effects on Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods
László Kovács
World Population in 2008: Half Rural - Half Urban
Variation over Time of the Proportion of Rural-Urban Population
V. Krepl
Manpower Development in Agricultural Engineering in Selected Developing Countries
Kiyomitsu Kudo
Maternity Leave of Farmers and Potentiality of Family Management Agreement in Japan
Kiyomitsu Kudo
The Social Norm and the Awareness of the Constraints of Rural Women in Japan
Geoffrey Lawrence
The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems
Jin Young Lee
An Analysis of Meaning on Rural Woman's Legal Status in Agricultural Policy of Korea
Jin Young Lee
Development of an Educational Program for Rural Woman Leader's Activity in Local Committee
Jin Young Lee
Evaluation of an Educational Program for Rural Women's Motivation to sSolve Problem Based on Gender Equality
Jin Young Lee
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Ganesh Chandra MallickS Madelrieux
Wage Labour: Modes of Territorial Adjustment of Work Groups and Livestock Farming Activities. Illustration in Brazilian Amazonia and Comparison with Other Regions of the World
Understanding Poverty and Vulnerability: A Study Among Three Indigenous Communities of Eastern India
Ram Manohar Lohia
Women Assertion and Political Participation at the Grassroot Level: Ethnographic Study of an Indian Village Panchayat
Erik Mathijs
Between Agency and Structure: An Analysis of Three Flemish Cooperatives
José-Ramón Mauleón
Conventional and Alternative Food Systems: Idiazabal PDO Cheese in the Basque Country (Spain)
Koichi Miyoshi
Networking, Knowledge and Community Capacity Development
Adebo Grace Modupe
Effect of Information Communication Technology on Food Marketing and Poverty Alleviation Among Women in Rural Nigeria
Agustín Morales
The State Participation in Food Distribution to Urban Areas and its Likely Implications for the Venezuelan Agrofood Sector
Elibariki E. Msuya
Explaining Productivity Variation among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Tanzania
B.S. Nahum
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Tatsuhiko Nariu
Explaining Productivity Variation among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Tanzania
Aurasri Ngamwittayaphong
A Paradigm for Rural Poverty Eradication : 40 years from the Wealth Oriented Paradigm to the Stable System of Relationship Paradigm , the Case of the Thai State
Kyoung Min Oh
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Fasoranti O. Olayiwola
Perception of Rural-Urban Migration in Selected Rural Communities in Ondo State, Nigeria
Fasoranti Olayiwola Olujenyo
The Determinants of Agricultural Production and Profitability in Akoko Land, Ondo-State, Nigeria
Tolga Ozsen
The Social Role and Position of Elderly in Order to Sustain Rural Life in Japan
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
The Occupational Structure and Mobility of Migrants in the Greek Rural Labour Markets
Lourdes Perkins
Mesoamerican Ethnic Identity and Culture as Part of the Mexican People's Cultural Patrimony
Duangkamol Poonual
A Development of Healthy Ageing City Model
Natalia Pro-Nowak
Socio-economic Change and a Matter of Growing Unemployment Among Rural Women in Poland
D. Quanz
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
E. Scopel
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Jenniver Sehring
Path Dependencies and Institutional Bricolage in Post-Soviet Water Governance
Miki Shibuya
Issues and Characteristics of the Economic Activities of Women of Middle Age in Japanese Farming Villages
P. Sist
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Naomi Stenning
Networking, Knowledge and Community Capacity Development
Fumiaki Suda
Making Device for Sustainable Agriculture Systems: A Case Study of Japanese Farmers Markets
M. Sugiura
Irrigation Water Management Developed Through Conflicts: A Case Study of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan
Sadao Tokuno
The Social Role and Position of Elderly in Order to Sustain Rural Life in Japan
J.F. Tourrand
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Jean-Francois Tourrand
Tradition and Change in the Southern Cone of America: Limits and Potentialities of Multi-Agent Systems as Methodological Tools for the Study of the Social Impacts of Territorial Dynamics
Jean-Francois Tourrand
Limits and Potentialities of Multi-Agent Systems as Methodological Tools for the Study of the Social Impacts of Territorial Dynamics
Rieko Tsuru
Background and the Factors Promoting Women's Empowerment in Japanese Rural Society
J.B. Veiga
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
Cindy Lyn Wachowski
Uncovering Community Capacity for Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development
Wanpen Worawongpongsa
Peace Making: Religions Diversity in the Midst of Peace: Case Study in Samudsongkram Province
Dae Yong Whang
Development of an Educational Program for Rural Woman Leader's Activity in Local Committee
Dae Yong Whang
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
K. Yamaoka
Irrigation Water Management Developed Through Conflicts: A Case Study of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan
Masashi Yamashita
The Social Norm and the Awareness of the Constraints of Rural Women in Japan
Byeong-Seon Yoon
Keeping the Food Sovereignty Through the Local Food Movement
Eva Youkhana
Claim and Reality of Community-based Water Management at the Example of Rural Fisheries in Ghana