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The new call for Research and Exchange Mobility Grant is now open, inside the call you can find the Guidelines, Criteria for eligible country/institution and the Post-mobility Outputs. Please, note that the deadline for...
In summer 2017, SRUC was commissioned by the Scottish Government to undertake research to improve our understanding of the labour market in Scottish agriculture. One of MIRRA Network members, Philomena de Lima, participated in...
Piras, S., Pancotto, F., Righi, S., Vittuari, M., & Setti, M. (2018). Food waste as a (negative) measure of social capital. A study across Italian Provinces DEMB Working Paper Series, No. 127, University of...
Minnes, S., Breen, S.-P., Markey, S., & Vodden, K. (2018). Pragmatism versus Potential: New Regionalism and Rural Drinking Water Management. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 13(2). This article proposes a new approach to...
Now available from Vernonpress.com – NEW BOOK from Nathan Kerrigan (member of RPLC MIRRA Network), titled, “A Threatened Rural Idyll: Informal social control, exclusion and the resistance to change in the English Countyside.” About the...
The Migration in Remote and Rural Areas (MIRRA) Network of the Rural Policy Learning Commons (RPLC) is launching the MIRRA Policy and Research Briefs Series. We are looking to publish short (1000-1500 words) synopses...
Here you can read and watch the outputs produced by students who received a RPLC Research and Exchange Mobily grant. Sarah Breen and Terry MacDonald: “The Future of Forestry in the UK and the...
“Who is this St. George of which you speak,” you may well ask. Well, he is the Patron Saint of England, and his alleged day of death (April 23rd) is a provincial holiday here in...
The 2019 North Atlantic Forum and the Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference will be held at St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, October 1-4,2019. The conference is aimed to bring together practitioners, policy makers, community...
Refsgaard, K., Teräs, J., Kull, M., Oddsson, G., Jóhannesson, T., & Kristensen, I. (2018). The Rapidly Developing Nordic Bioeconomy : Exerpt from State of the Nordic Region 2018. The Rapidly Developing Nordic Bioeconomy is a...