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Project Code [2007-PhD-SD-5]

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Project title

Innovation, agricultural diversification and environmental sustainability

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

University College Dublin (UCD)

Lead Applicant

Alun Jones

Project Abstract

The development of on-farm complementary activities is a necessity for the long-term viability and survival of EU farm businesses. Central to this survival process is the generation and mobilisation of innovative ideas by farm households. Such innovation offers tremendous micro-, meso- and macro-economic benefits to local rural economies and, concurrently, great potential to establish farming practices and production methods which reflect the increasing societal concern for conservation, landscape protection and quality food production. However, little rigorous examination has taken place of the nature and operation of linkages between farm households and rural institutions in the emergence and sustenance of innovative on-farm diversification. This forms the scientific rationale for this doctoral scholarship.

Grant Approved

�80,000.00

Research Hub

Sustainability

Research Theme

Socio-Economic Considerations

Start Date

01/10/2007

Initial Projected Completion Date

01/10/2010