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What is food insecurity? An explanation

Have you ever wondered why more than 850 million people around the world go to bed at night starving?

Have you ever wondered how is it to work for food, not to make your life better?

To answer questions like these, we first must find out what is Food (In)Security.

More on: hungryworld.trust.org
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Script/Voice: Alex Whiting
Animation: Amelia Wong
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Academia #7: Developing a Global Agricultural Policy

I wrote this article during my postdoc research at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Belgium. It tells people why a global policy should be developed to ensure food security and why this policy will never become reality.

The full article is available on Academia.edu HERE. Enjoy your reading!

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Academia #6: The image of the rural entrepreneur

The image of the person willing to start a business in the rural environment appears idealistic, the rural entrepreneur being considered “independent, capable of taking chances, results-oriented, optimistic, confident in their powers, hardworking and innovative”. Also, it was noted that rural entrepreneurship should be clearly focused on creating new workplaces by implementing investments in rural communities.

Courtesy of ISBE UK
Courtesy of ISBE UK

In essence, rural entrepreneurship represents that type of entrepreneurship that is able to offer added value to all type of rural resources (natural, material, financial,human) in rural areas rendering in this process mainly rural-based human resources.

READ MORE HERE…

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Academia #5: Better SWOT analyses

Local development strategies have long been a reason for argument because they are developed through outdated methods and procedures that might not show the present situation.

The realization and implementation of the local development strategy in an organized and continuous manner, based on a well realized model, can lead, in a time horizon of 10 years to a rural space development that can be quantified through removing development disparities. READ MORE HERE

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Academia #3: The profile of the rural entrepreneur

The entrepreneurship is a dynamic process in which new companies emerge, present companies grow and those unsuccessful disappear. This represent the main characteristic of the entrepreneurship followed by innovation where new products and services and new production methods are introduced by companies that have identified new market opportunities or better ways of satisfying current demands.

This is best shown in rural entrepreneurship where 
it is crucial for a business to be consumer oriented and have a clear market. A third characteristic of (rural) entrepreneurship is that of small business that tend of identifying with their owners. READ MORE HERE
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