scholarly journals Biological reproduction of family farms: From the rural gender regime perspective

Sociologija ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-123
Author(s):  
Jovana Cikic
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Gender Regime ◽  
Farm Type ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Rural Depopulation ◽  
Biological Reproduction ◽  
Basic Characteristics

Depopulation and ageing are long-lasting problems of Serbian rural areas. In terms of demographic self-renewal of rural areas, especially family farms, the issue of resource base for biological reproduction is of great importance. Quantity and quality of resource base are determined by the characteristics of rural social vitality as well as rural gender regime. Thus, factors of women`s participation in biological reproduction of family farms have been analyzed. The analysis was based on a sample of 1,096 family farms in Vojvodina. Vojvodina is considered relevenat for the analysis due to the significant rural depopulation and ageing. The results have confirmed concept of rural gender regimes to be an adequate scheme to explore the basic characteristics of the women`s participation in biological reproduction on family farms. Bio-demographic and socio-cultural factors have stronger impact on women`s participation in biological reproduction than than socio-economic ones. Mariage is proven to be the most significant predictor of women`s participation in biological reproduction, regardlesly to farm type. Also, results have proven nuptiality and fertility postponement among women living on family farms. It can be concluded that women`s participation in biological reproduction of family farms occurs under the influence of partially modified rural gender regime.

More is more. Livelihood interventions and child labor in the agricultural sector

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Chiodi ◽  
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Verónica Escudero
Keyword(s):  
Child Labor ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
Hazardous Child Labor

What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the first randomized experiment, we evaluate a livelihood intervention provided to farmers in Peru that use the labor of their children on their family farms, accompanied by an education intervention aimed to improve the quality of schools and an awareness-raising intervention. In the second randomized experiment, we evaluate the incremental effect of the livelihood intervention implemented within a similar program in the Philippines, focused on the sugarcane agricultural sector. We find that when livelihood interventions were provided alone, they did not manage to improve economic conditions, and hence generally failed to reduce child labor rates in rural areas. However, when the livelihood intervention was combined with measures to improve the quality of education in Peru, we see a reduction in hazardous child labor and child labor overall. Awareness-raising interventions, aimed at changing the perceptions of parents through community interaction, appear to have also had an effect in the reduction of child labor, and these effects were reinforced by education interventions. Results indicate that a comprehensive approach including livelihood support with education and awareness-raising components is a more effective way to reduce child labor and hazardous labor for children in the agricultural sector.

scholarly journals Do Farmers’ Asset Values Correlate with Land Quality?

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
Ben G.J.S. Sonneveld ◽  
Sally Bunning ◽  
Riccardo Biancalani ◽  
D. Ndiaye ◽  
Freddy Nachtergaele
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resource ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Resource Quality ◽  
Land Quality ◽  
Asset Value ◽  
Asset Values ◽  
Natural Resource Base

<p>This paper investigates if farmers’ asset values have a predictive power to asses land quality. A rich sustainable livelihood literature describes small farmers’ biophysical and socio-economic environment through asset values, which closely adheres to the required information for an integrated quality appraisal of the natural resource base. For our analysis we use an in-depth survey held among 50 famers’ households in three rural areas of Senegal. Farmers gave scores for their livelihood assets (human, physical, natural, financial and social) and judgments on the state and trend of the quality of their natural resource base (crop land, rangeland, forest and water resources). As our observational data are dominated by unobserved heterogeneity, we refrain from causal statistical analysis and seek associative patterns between asset values and state and trend of natural resource quality using data visualization techniques and descriptive statistics. We compare categorical data on state and trend of land qualities with asset value classes in a frequency distributions evaluation (Chi-square) and with continuous asset value scores in an analysis of variance (ANOVA). For state of forest we found consistent but counterintuitive differences for various asset values with higher asset values for ‘degraded’ classes and lower values for ‘good’ quality of the forests. There is some evidence that trend of forest quality can be derived from asset value scores which were in agreement with our premise of lower scores for low quality and higher scores for better quality. Yet, overall we have to conclude that asset values do not correlate straightforward and unequivocally with state and trend of natural resource quality. </p>

scholarly journals HOUSEHOLD LOGISTICS IN TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Snežana Tadić ◽  
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Miloš Veljović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Tourism Supply Chain ◽  
Efficient Realization

The tourism supply chain (TSC) consists of different participants: suppliers, tour operators and customers; in TSC, numerous physical and information flows to end customers are realized. Efficient realization of flows is enabled by logistics systems and technologies. In this way, logistics contribute to the competitiveness of tourism products. TSC participants can be trade, production, catering, logistics companies, travel agencies, but also households, primarily in rural areas. Households can play a role at all levels of TSC (suppliers of goods, materials and services, tour operators, travel agencies, end customers) and in various forms of tourism, but they play the most important role in rural and agritourism. Logistics is important in the optimization of logistics flows of households in TSC, having in mind imperatives of quality of goods, services, or complete tourism products that they can supply customers with. Therefore, in this paper, the role, significance and basic characteristics of subsystems of household logistics in TSC are analyzed.

Human Capital of Rural Territories: Demographic Aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
S.G. Golovina ◽  
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I.N. Mikolaichik ◽  
L.N. Smirnova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Domestic Literature ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Main Components

The purpose of the research is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of specific (demographic) aspects of the human capital accumulated within the territory of the Kurgan region and identification of the main problems associated with its formation in the context of studied region’s economic development stimulating. The theoretical part of article is devoted to the study of various approaches to human capital evaluating and estimation of its role in regional development. The empirical part of the research presents the results of monitoring the main components of human capital in the Kurgan region from the standpoint of its traditional (basic) characteristics, such as population size, age structure, migration flows, and employment. The methods used to achieve the stated goal consist of (1) the review of modern foreign and domestic literature, (2) the analysis of relevant statistical data (with using the modern techniques). The obtained results have both theoretical value (specification of the basic elements of human capital in rural areas) and practical value (can be applied by regional government in the development of rural support policies directions and tools in order to improve the quality of life of the rural population).

The Relationship between the Development of Human Capital and the Agricultural Economy in Rural Areas

2020 ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
B.A. Voronin ◽  
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I.P. Chupina ◽  
Ya.V. Voronina ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Standard View ◽  
Household Factors ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses a non-standard view of the formation of human capital for work in organizations of the agricultural sector of the economy, in the context of modern socio-economic transformations. In the classical sense, human capital for agriculture should be formed and developed in rural areas. But in real life, this is not always the case, because there are many factors that prevent the classical solution of this problem. First, the demographic factor affects, second, social and household factors, and third, in many rural areas there are no working agricultural organizations where qualified agricultural specialists can work. All these and other circumstances actualize the problem of the quality of human capital in rural areas in relation to the development of agricultural production.

Guaranteed values – the basis of the analysis of the quality of individual products

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-33
Author(s):  
D. N. Kalacheva
Keyword(s):  
Frequency Distribution ◽  
Distribution Law ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Definition Of

Herein, the main features and rules of using guaranteed values when analyzing the quality of rocket - space equipment products are considered. The definition of the guaranteed value and the form of its presentation is given. It is indicated that guaranteed value is distributed and is characterized by the frequency distribution law. The main methods of representation and conversion of guaranteed values are statistical. Examples of determining the basic characteristics of guaranteed values are given.

QUALITY OF LIFE IN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS OF FIVE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIDRUN MOLLENKOPF ◽  
ROMAN KASPAR ◽  
FIORELLA MARCELLINI ◽  
ISTO RUOPPILA ◽  
ZSUZSA SZÉMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

UNDER-GRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE ROLE OF E- LIBRARIES TO UPLIFT THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dharambeer Singh
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Education Status

Digital libraries, designed to serve people and their information needs in the same way as traditional libraries, present distinct advantages over brick and mortar facilities: elimination of physical boundaries, round-the-clock access to information, multiple access points, networking abilities, and extended search functions. As a result, they should be especially well-suited for the disables. However, minorities, those affected by lower income and education status, persons living in rural areas, the physically challanged, and developing countries as a whole consistently suffer from a lack of accessibility to digital libraries. This paper evaluates the effectiveness and relevance of digital libraries currently in place and discusses what could and should be done to improve accessibility to digital libraries for under-graduate students.

Evaluation of health-related quality of life in adults with and without dyslipidaemia in rural areas of central China

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-939
Author(s):  
Hui Wu ◽  
Huijun Li ◽  
Haibin Li ◽  
Yu Ding ◽  
Chongjian Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Central China ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related
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