Animal Production and Rural Tourism in Mediterranean Regions (European Association for Animal Production, #74)
Animal production is an essential factor for the development of the rural environment as it contributes to the diversification of the rural landscape by promoting rural tourism and population settlement in rural areas. This is a compilation of the papers presented at the International Symposium on Animal Production and Rural Tourism in Mediterranean Regions organized by EAAP, FAO, CIHAEM and SNFEZ-EZN. The aim of this symposium was to stress the importance of animal production in the development...
Mennonite Identity in Conflict (Studies in religion & society, #19)
by Leo Driedger
Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural adventures through pre-war England Mr Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so she goes to visit her brother, while he sets out to explore the countryside and go house-hunting. While learning to handle the horse and the caravan, he encounters a variety of eccentrics and country characters, and several unsuitable houses. It gradually emerges that th...
Life Behind the Cottage Door (Countryside S.) (Reminiscence)
by Val Porter
CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is a dynamic movement at the heart of agricultural renewal. This book is a sequel to the groundbreaking 'Farms of Tomorrow' which introduced the movement to the world. This new volume includes new essays and new farm profiles, and updates to the original profiles. Expanded appendices provide suggestions for starting CSA farms, look at the issues surrounding the acquisition of land, illustrate sample farm prospectuses and budgets, and offer lists of resources...
Pastoral Vulnerability to Socio-Political and Climate Stresses (ZEF Development Studies, #22)
by Asghar Tahmasebi
Matsuri and Religion
Bringing together the innovative work of scholars from a variety of disciplines, Matsuri and Religion explores festivals in Japan through their interconnectedness to religious life in both urban and rural communities. Each chapter, informed by extensive ethnographic engagement, focuses on a specific festival to unpack the role of religion in collective ritualized activities. With attention to contemporary performance and historical transformation, the study sheds light on understandings of chang...
For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the traj...
During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children-a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state-worked this land as tenants. Beginning in 1839, these tenants created a movement dedicated to des...
Rural Development in China (Rural Development in China: The Rise of Innovative Institutions and Markets, Vol. 1)
by Yilong Lu
Rural Reform in Mexico (Transformation of Rural Mexico, #4)
by Raul Salinas De Gortari, Rabul Salinas De Gortari, and Jose L Solis-Gonzalez
‘A wonderfully personal evocation of the joys, hard work and meaning of creating a wood for wildlife, written with sensitivity and care. A delightful read.’ Stephen Moss, author of The Robin: A Biography Over twenty years ago, Ruth Pavey bought four acres of scrub woodland above the Somerset Levels and set out to improve the lush haven for birds, insects and all manner of wildlife. Beneath the shade of the trees she spent two decades planting, she now reflects on the fate of her wood. As stewa...