Seed is basic to crop production. Next to its importance in production, food security and rural development, seed is a key element in many debates about technology development and transfer, biodiversity, globalisation and equity. The sustainable availability of good quality seed is thus an important development issue. This study deals with the impa...
This report is the final output of the project “Policy towards dynamic rural area in Egypt” (BO-10-006-115) financed by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. Project purposes 2007 are: Advice to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation on preservation of socio-cultural values, bio-diversity, and general charac...
The blue print as presented in this report is intended to be a practical guide for regional cluster development for policy- and development practitioners. Four crucial steps for successful regional cluster development have been identified and discussed in the report. Screening, selecting, intervening and monitoring are key to successful cluster dev...
van der Jagt, P.D.van Holst, F.Thomas, J.van den Brink, A.Reyniers, J.Jongeneelen, O.van Dijk, T.Timmermans, W.Daugaliene, V.Crecente, R.
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Land development: expecting the unexpected. Future approaches to land development. Thos book is the result of an EU project. With Dutch contributions: Meerstad, Groningen (PPS) and Klarenbeek, Amsterdam (zorglandgoed)
Over the past few years many policy reports have been published which call for new attention as to the pivotal role of agriculture in (rural) development. These reports raised the question at both the Netherlands’ Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the Netherlands’ Directorate-General for International Co-operation (DGIS) wh...
One of the most notable changes in the world economy during the past three decades has been the diverging trends in the growth of the developing countries. Compared to East Asian countries that have integrated well into the global economy, those of Sub-Saharan Africa have remained stagnant and have become the world's least developed area. The polic...