Migration and technical efficiency in cereal production: evidence from Burkina Faso

This article uses a double bootstrap procedure and survey data from Burkina Faso in a two‐stage estimation to explore ways in which continental and intercontinental migration determine efficiency in cereal production of rural households. Findings suggest that continental migration has a positive relation and intercontinental migration no relation with technical efficiency. For continental migrant households, migration has removed surplus male labor, a cause for inefficiency in production. Intercontinental migration leads to a gender imbalance in the household, which cannot be compensated for by investments in farm equipment. The failure of intercontinental migration to transform cereal production from traditional to modern is attributed to an imperfect market environment.     

试谈农村初级中学图书馆的读者服务工作

本文针对农村初级中学图书馆读者服务工作的现状,试着从图书、读者及图书馆工作人员三个方面提出一些解决方法。     

我国农民旅游市场问题分析及开发策略

开发农民旅游市场不仅是旅游企业谋求发展的机遇,也是拉动我国旅游经济发展的重要举措。目前我国农民旅游还处于旅游的初级阶段,本文针对我国农民旅游市场存在的问题做深入研究,从政府和旅游企业两方面着手,提出了一些开发策略。     

浅议佳木斯市农村信用社资本管理

本文分析了辖区农村信用社资本结构以及资本管理现状,同时对资本管理现状产生的原因进行了分析,在此基础上,提出完善资本管理的对策.     

吉林省农村经济发展中的金融约束分析

金融作为现代经济的核心,是经济发展的重要推动力量。在当前建设社会主义新农村过程中,农村金融肩负着重要的历史使命,但是吉林省目前农村金融体系的制度性缺陷,直接融资渠道匮乏,非正规金融的先天不足,已经成为吉林省农村经济发展中的制约因素。     

论我国农村金融监管制度的改革与完善

对我国农村金融监管制度的完善应紧密结合我国农村金融自身所具有的鲜明特性。金融监管应追求安全与效率的和谐统一。金融监管的方式应从单纯的合规性监管、统一监管更新为以风险性监管和分类监管、差别监管为主。在健全农村金融监管法规的基础上应有针对性地对民间金融合法化。多元化的监管体系和足够的监管资源、均衡投入的监管力量也是成熟的农村金融监管制度必不可少的。     

国际金融危机背景下我国农村金融服务深化路径选择

由美国次贷危机引发的全球金融危机,对世界各国经济社会产生了消极的影响,对我国农业和农村经济的负面影响也逐步显现。本文首先介绍了国际金融危机对我国农村经济与农村金融的影响,其次溯源了农村金融服务的相关理论,并探讨国际金融危机视角下农村金融服务深化的意义,最后针对当前我国农村金融抑制的现状,提出农村金融服务深化的路径选择,以抑制国际金融危机对我国农村经济及农村金融的影响。     

农村金融生态环境与金融效率指标体系构建及互动分析

分别建立农村金融生态环境和金融效率评价指标体系,并从理论上分析二者的互动机制。然后运用Granger因果检验法,对1985-2008年农村金融生态环境和金融效率关系进行实证分析,结果显示二者存在Granger因果关系,建议通过优化农村金融生态环境来促进金融效率提高,并带来自身进一步改善。     

Strawberry fields forever? Conflict over neo-productivist Spanish polytunnel technology in British agriculture

This paper uses the example of Spanish polytunnels to demonstrate how the deployment of ‘neo-productivist’ agricultural technologies to meet the demands of food security and sustainability within a globalised food chain is likely to precipitate greater countryside conflict. Field-scale ‘Spanish polytunnels’ for strawberry growing have become a new feature of the British agricultural landscape. This has been driven primarily by supermarkets searching for high quality and quantity supplies of soft fruit. With production becoming industrialised, conflict has ensued in some rural communities where polytunnels have appeared. Interviews with prominent strawberry growers and protestors against polytunnels illuminate a vociferous and embittered wrangle. Within it, land use planners are labelled as ‘strawberry fools’ by both sides for failing, until recently, to provide decisive regulation to prevent conflict and effect its resolution. The paper concludes by drawing attention to the future characteristics of conflicts precipitated as new agricultural technologies are implemented rapidly, impact unevenly and are received acrimoniously.     

Application of appreciative inquiry in tourism research in rural communities

Appreciative inquiry is a participatory research method based on positive psychology. Founded upon grounded theory and the social constructivist paradigm, appreciative inquiry is a simple, effective, and epistemologically sound tool to understand the rural population’s knowledge, needs, and priorities without alienating them from research. Based on the study conducted to comprehend the interrelationships among conservation, livelihood, and tourism development in three rural communities located in the vicinity of Chitwan National Park, Nepal, this study argues that appreciative inquiry can be a useful tool for conducting tourism research in rural communities. This study employs five steps, including grounding, discovery, dream, design, and destiny.