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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
Initial Projected Completion Date
01/10/2010