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Full-Text Articles in Rural Sociology
Youth Aspirations And Sense Of Place In A Changing Rural Economy: The Coos Youth Study, Nena F. Stracuzzi
Youth Aspirations And Sense Of Place In A Changing Rural Economy: The Coos Youth Study, Nena F. Stracuzzi
Carsey Publications
Youth in rural Coos County have surprisingly strong ties to their communities, finds a new report from the Carsey Institute. The brief is the first to report on a ten-year panel study of students who began seventh and eleventh grades in 2007 in Coos, New Hampshire's northernmost and most rural county.
The Experience Of The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund In Mainstreaming Of Acquisition Loans To Cooperative Manufactured Housing Communities, Michael E. Swack, Jolan Rivera
The Experience Of The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund In Mainstreaming Of Acquisition Loans To Cooperative Manufactured Housing Communities, Michael E. Swack, Jolan Rivera
Carsey Publications
This study aimed to provide evidence of the extent to which a financial product―land acquisition loans for manufactured home parks―performed well and was adopted by mainstream financial institutions. The study hypothesized that The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s effective introduction of the new loan product, coupled with excellent loan performance, led banks to adopt the loan product.
Farmers And Nature Conservation: What Is Known About Attitudes, Context Factors And Actions Affecting Conservation?, Johan Ahnström, Jenny Höckert, Hanna L. Bergea, Charles A. Francis, Peter Skelton, Lars Hallgren
Farmers And Nature Conservation: What Is Known About Attitudes, Context Factors And Actions Affecting Conservation?, Johan Ahnström, Jenny Höckert, Hanna L. Bergea, Charles A. Francis, Peter Skelton, Lars Hallgren
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications
Farmers’ attitudes towards viability of specific conservation practices or actions strongly impact their decisions on adoption and change. This review of ‘attitude’ information reveals a wide range of perceptions about what conservation means and what the impacts of adoption will mean in economic and environmental terms. Farmers operate in a tight financial situation, and in parts of the world they are highly dependent on government subsidies, and cannot afford to risk losing that support. Use of conservation practices is most effective when these are understood in the context of the individual farm, and decisions are rooted in land and resource …
Update Mental Pictures Of Rural China, Forrest Zhang, John A. Donaldson
Update Mental Pictures Of Rural China, Forrest Zhang, John A. Donaldson
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Women in straw hats stoop over water-logged plots, working together to plant rice seedlings. A weather-worn man trudges behind an ox ploughing his family's field. Farmers throw newly harvested grain in the air so the wind can carry off the chaff. Tour buses navigate past grain carefully laid out on the black-topped road to dry. Though picturesque, these images of rural China perpetuate stereotypes of a conservative culture resistant to change - and affect public policy.