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Working Group 1
Effect of Information Communication Technology on Food Marketing and Poverty Alleviation Among Women in Rural Nigeria
Adebo Grace Modupe
Women in Bangladesh Civil Service: Vulnerability and Challenges
Rezaul Karim
Peace Making: Religions Diversity in the Midst of Peace: Case Study in Samudsongkram Province
Wanpen Worawongpongsa, Passanan Assavarak
Strengthening Sulawesi Rural Community Development to Support Poverty Alleviation Program in Indonesia
Yoshio Kawamura
Women Assertion and Political Participation at the Grassroot Level: Ethnographic Study of an Indian Village Panchayat
Sanjay Singh, Ram Manohar Lohia
Networking, Knowledge and Community Capacity Development
Naomi Stenning, Koichi Miyoshi
An Analysis of Meaning on Rural Woman's Legal Status in Agricultural Policy of Korea
Gyung Mee Gim, Jin Young Lee, Yoon Ji Choi, Kyeong Ha Kang
Development of an Educational Program for Rural Woman Leader's Activity in Local Committee
Jin Young Lee, Dae Yong Whang, Yoon Ji Choi, Kyeong Ha Kang
Evaluation of an Educational Program for Rural Women's Motivation to sSolve Problem Based on Gender Equality
Gyung Mee Gim, Jin Young Lee, Yoon Ji Choi
World Population in 2008: Half Rural - Half Urban
Variation over Time of the Proportion of Rural-Urban Population
László Kovács
Working Group 2
Survival Strategies of the Female Displacees in Rural Bangladesh: A Study of Two Riparian Villages on the Right Bank of Jamuna
M Zulfiquar Ali Islam
Working Group 3
Ecological-social Relationship in the Quest for Community and its Breakdown
Kyoung Mann Cho
The 'Wellness' Phenomenon: Implications for Global Agri-food Systems
Geoffrey Lawrence, David Burch
Conventional and Alternative Food Systems: Idiazabal PDO Cheese in the Basque Country (Spain)
José-Ramón Mauleón
Between Agency and Structure: An Analysis of Three Flemish Cooperatives
Joost Dessein, Erik Mathijs
Explaining Productivity Variation among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Tanzania
Elibariki E. Msuya, Shuji Hisano, Tatsuhiko Nariu
The Development of Alternative Production and Consumption Activities Related to Food Safety and Security and Associated Gender Issues
Nakamichi Hitomi
The State Participation in Food Distribution to Urban Areas and its Likely Implications for the Venezuelan Agrofood Sector
Agustín Morales
The Meaning of the Fair Trade in the Context of the Republic of South Africa
Koichi Ikegami
Making Device for Sustainable Agriculture Systems: A Case Study of Japanese Farmers Markets
Tadahiro Iizaka, Fumiaki Suda
Keeping the Food Sovereignty Through the Local Food Movement
Byeong-Seon Yoon
Working Group 10
Resticking Agriculture in Indonesian Economy: Facts, Policy Impact Issues and Poverty Reduction
Muhammad Arsyad
Working Group 12
Uncovering Community Capacity for Poverty Alleviation and Rural Development
Cindy Lyn Wachowski
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
Aurasri Ngamwittayaphong
Understanding Poverty and Vulnerability: A Study Among Three Indigenous Communities of Eastern India
Ganesh Chandra Mallick
Working Group 14
Working Group 16,17
A Development of Healthy Ageing City Model
Duangkamol Poonual
The Occupational Structure and Mobility of Migrants in the Greek Rural Labour Markets
Charalambos Kasimis, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
Perception of Rural-Urban Migration in Selected Rural Communities in Ondo State, Nigeria
Fasoranti O. Olayiwola
The Social Role and Position of Elderly in Order to Sustain Rural Life in Japan
Tolga Ozsen, Sadao Tokuno
The Determinants of Agricultural Production and Profitability in Akoko Land, Ondo-State, Nigeria
Fasoranti Olayiwola Olujenyo
Socio-economic Change and a Matter of Growing Unemployment Among Rural Women in Poland
Natalia Pro-Nowak
Manpower Development in Agricultural Engineering in Selected Developing Countries
V. Krepl
Working Group 23
Paradoxes of Biofuels in Argentina
Silvina Cecilia Carrizo, Martine Guibert, Marcelo Champredonde
Well-being, Work Comfort and Food Security are Better Than Maximizing Production in the Amazon
T.M.F. Barbosa, J.F. Tourrand, B.S. Nahum, J.B. Veiga, D. Quanz, P. Sist, E. Scopel, V. Homem
Local Territorial Insertion of Cattle Breeders and Artificialization of Production Systems: Logics of Cattle Feeding in the Southwest of Argentine Pampa
Marcelo Champredonde, Christophe Albaladejo, Fernanda Ercoli
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, Gabriela Litre, Jean-Francois Tourrand, Pierre Bommel
Validation of Work Balance Methodology to Evaluate Strategies and Discuss Viability of Beef Farms in Uruguay
F. Dieguez, H. Morales, S. Cournut
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
S. Madelrieux, L. Dupré, N. Hostiou, T. Barbosa, A.B. Burlamaqui, A.M. Alves, J.F. Tourrand, V. Homem
Limits and Potentialities of Multi-Agent Systems as Methodological Tools for the Study of the Social Impacts of Territorial Dynamics
Hermes Morales Grosskopf, Gabriela Litre, Jean-Francois Tourrand, Pierre Bommel
Working Group 28
Rural Water Supply in Namibia: Effects on Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods
Bernadette Bock, Thomas Falk, Michael Kirk
Claim and Reality of Community-based Water Management at the Example of Rural Fisheries in Ghana
Jennifer Hauck, Eva Youkhana
Path Dependencies and Institutional Bricolage in Post-Soviet Water Governance
Jenniver Sehring
Irrigation Water Management Developed Through Conflicts: A Case Study of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan
M. Sugiura, K. Yamaoka
Working Group 29
Modernity and Ethnicity in Mexican Rural Society
Joaquín Careaga
Mesoamerican Ethnic Identity and Culture as Part of the Mexican People's Cultural Patrimony
Lourdes Perkins
Working Group 34
Maternity Leave of Farmers and Potentiality of Family Management Agreement in Japan
Chie Katayama, Kiyomitsu Kudo
The Social Norm and the Awareness of the Constraints of Rural Women in Japan
Masashi Yamashita, Kiyomitsu Kudo
Issues and Characteristics of the Economic Activities of Women of Middle Age in Japanese Farming Villages
Miki Shibuya
Background and the Factors Promoting Women's Empowerment in Japanese Rural Society
Rieko Tsuru
How Rural Women's Entrepreneurship Based on Life Improvement Practice Group Developed: A Case Study on Tochigi and Nagano, Japan
Kumi Sawano, Tomoko Ichida
Change and Problems About Women Farmers in Japan
Tokuya Kawate
A Study on Female Organic Farmers' Use of Information Communication Channels for Acquiring Farming Innovations
Tzy-Ling Chen, Fang Li-Yang
Design of an Educational Program for Rural Women Leader's Activity in Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Gyung Mee Gim, Jin Young Lee, Dae Yong Whang, Yoon Ji Choi, Kyeong Ha Kang, Kyoung Min Oh