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Erasmus+ Project: Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development Social Capital
The Erasmus+ Project "Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development" aims to elaborate and communicate the topic of social capital for extension workers for rural development processes in Turkey https://www.utemooc.org/. The training materials and short videos about the eight study regions in Austria, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, are accessible for extension workers - following the principle of train the trainer - as well as for the residents in rural regions of...
Contribution to the conference: Bridging the Gender Gap in Rural Mountain Regions - Challenges: Digitalization as an opportunity - Case study Mestia (Georgia)
The contribution of Theresia Oedl-Wieser dealt with the empowerment of women in a high mountain region in Georgia or results of community-led local development initiatives. Among other things, it was shown that many local activities are based on long-term socio-cultural processes that require a deep awareness of site-specific conditions and sufficient time for the development of adapted measures. The presentation of Th. Oedl-Wieser starts at minute 52:26 and can be accessed at the following...
Austrian study study tour in the framework of the Erasmus+ project UniClaD
Within the framework of the Erasmus+ project UniClaD ("Enhancing capacity of universities to initiate and to participate in clusters development on innovation and sustainability principles ") a series of study tours to EU countries are carried out with the aim to support the consortium partners in the development of agrofood clusters in Moldova, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. From March 27 to 31, 2023, a study tour was conducted in Austria, organized by the Federal Institute of Agricultural...
Land Use in Flood-Prone Areas and Its Significance for Flood Risk Management
Interim results of the POCO-Flood project have been published in the scientific open access journal LAND: Land 2022, 11, 392. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030392 They deal with the topic of land use and conflicts of use in flood risk zones in alpine areas of Austria. The work of the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming points to the relatively high proportion of arable land with great economic importance for agricultural enterprises especially in alpine flood...
Rural Service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development
In the framework of the ROBUST project, a paper on "Rural Service hubs and socially innovative rural-urban linkages: A conceptual framework for nexogenous development" was recently published. Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK Theresia Oedl-Wieser, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Vienna, Austria Ulla Ovaska, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland Aimee Morse, University of Gloucestershire,...
EP: Women in the countryside - an academic and a farmer’s perspective
Im Rahmen der Gleichstellungswoche 2021 des Europäischen Parlaments fand in der letzten Oktoberwoche 2021 auf Initiative des Ausschusses für Landwirtschaft und ländliche Entwicklung eine öffentliche Anhörung zum Thema "Frauen auf dem Lande - eine akademische und bäuerliche Perspektive" statt, um die Rolle der Frauen im ländlichen Raum zu beleuchten. Dazu wurden zwei Expertinnen und Buchautorinnen – Theresia Oedl-Wieser und Céline Berthier – eingeladen, um ihre Erfahrungen und...
Poster: Family Farmers on The Move: Possibilities and Challenges
Nidal Shaban, University of Forestry Sofia, Bulgaria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Erika Quendler, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Austria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Iman Kadhum, Agricultural Academy Sofia, Bulgaria / ISLE ASSOCIATION Noureddin Driouech, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies - CIHEAM Bari, Italy / ISLE ASSOCIATION The poster aims to promote a wide and constructive discussion on the current status and challenges facing...
Poster: Achieving Agricultural Sustainability through Policies that Support Multifunctional Family Farms
Erika Quendler, Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research, Austria. John Ikerd, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, United States. Noureddin Driouech, International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies - CIHEAM Bari, Italy. The poster depicts the link between family farms, sustainability, multifunctionality and agroecology. With this in mind, multifunctional family farming provides a much more logical model or paradigm to design...
Study on the adaptation stragegies of the sugar supply chain after the end of the sugar quotas
On 31 January 2022, the European Commission published the study "Adaptation strategies of the sugar supply chain after the end of sugar quotas". The Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics, Rural and Mountain Research contributed to this work with a case study conducted in spring 2021. The study examines the consequences of the end of quotas for the EU sugar sector and assesses whether and to what extent the sector's adjustment strategies are appropriate for responding to the changed...
Study on low/no alcohol beverages
At the beginning of March 2023, the European Commission published a "Study on low/no alcohol beverages", in which the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming also participated in the context of conducting a case study in Austria. The background to the study commissioned by the European Commission (EC) is the increasing supply of low-alcohol beverages (e.g. low/no-alcohol beer, dealcoholised wine) and the lack of an EU-wide legal framework for these products. The...