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Reseña de Agulló Albuixech, Agulló Calatayud y Fuertes (2014). La vida cotidiana en Siete Aguas desde Cavanilles hasta el Gran Fondo (1795-1985)
2014
En las Ciencias Sociales el estudio de la vida cotidiana es relativamente reciente y surge del interés por sacar a la luz lo que muchas veces queda oculto. Lo que va pasando mientras parece que no pasa nada. Con una pretensión que aúna lo divulgativo y lo académico, los autores recorren en este libro los más diversos aspectos que configuran la rica vida cotidiana de una localidad rural valenciana, Siete Aguas.
Sabiedrības līdzdalība attīstības un vides plānošanas procesos un tās noteicošie faktori
2015
Cik lielu nozīmi mūsdienās cilvēki piešķir sev apkārtesošajai videi? Ar to nedomājot tikai dabu un ainavu, bet arī sociālās, emocionālās un citas saiknes. Nenoliedzami šai attieksme gadu gaitā ir notikušas izmaiņas, ko ietekmējušas dažādās Latvijas valsts politiskās iekārtas un mērķi, kā arī tehnoloģiju attīstība, globalizācija, mobilizācija utt., bet tieši apkārtējās vides nozīme, ko tai piešķir indivīds, ir viens no būtiskākajiem faktoriem sabiedrības līdzdalības procesos. Maģistra darbā pētīta sabiedrības līdzdalība plānošanas procesā, kā arī faktori, kas to ietekmē, trīs Latvijas apdzīvotās vietās – Dagdā, Svētciemā un Tūjā. Kvalitatīvo datu ieguvē kā metode tika izvēlēta intervija, jo …
Is Green Harvesting a Useful Instrument to solve Market Problems in the Wine Sector? Some Lessons from Sicily
2016
The green harvesting (GH) policy measure has been introduced in Italy starting from the 2009/2010 wine season, with the goal of preventing market crises by reducing the yield of a given parcel to zero. In the 2010-2012 period, almost 85% of the national expenditure and about 81% of European Union (EU) expenditure for this measure have been showered on Sicily. This paper, after examining the application of GH in this Region, explores the motivations of 300 vine growers of Western Sicily for taking part, or refusing to do so, in the GH measure. The survey shows the contrasting nature of the opinions that the implementation of GH has caused among the interviewed sample. In fact, on the one han…
Il ruolo del settore vitivinicolo nei processi di sviluppo sostenibile: il caso di Pantelleria
2008
La Sicilia è senza dubbio una delle principali regioni vitivinicole italiane, sia per la qualità delle sue produzioni che per la quantità di vino prodotto che ancora oggi, nonostante le 7 IGT e le 22 DOC presenti nel territorio, viene però solo in minima parte confezionato e commercializzato sui mercati finali del dettaglio tradizionale. Tra le denominazioni di origine, una tra le più antiche che si sta negli ultimi anni affermando sempre più sul mercato nazionale e straniero è il passito di Pantelleria. Questo vino dolce da dessert, prodotto nell’omonima isola esclusivamente dalla cultivar zibibbo, nonostante sia tutelato dalla denominazione già dai primi anni ’70 non è mai riuscito ad eme…
Main intrinsic factors driving land grabbing in the African countries’ agro-food industry
2022
Land grabbing is a phenomenon that has spread widely over the last two decades and which involves rich and emerging countries and international companies as protagonists in the large-scale acquisition of land in developing countries. Through the development of an econometric model that takes into account the annual size of land grabbing in the African countries, the research aims to understand the main intrinsic factors, linked to the hosting countries, that guide the large-scale acquisition of land by foreign investors. Results show that the presence of a high debt towards foreign organisations, the high availability of virgin lands, the strong vocation of the hosting country for the culti…
The importance of the web marketing strategies for the nurseries and gardening companies in the Southern Italy
2013
In the last years, the integrated use of internet in the company marketing strategies has brought about deep changes in the economic sector of the countries. The World Wide Web has become the most important way companies share business information with other enterprises (B2B) and with consumers (B2C). Consequently, the companies have modified the processes making significant changes, mainly in the fields of communication and sales. The study presented here is to be situated in the category of the B2C relations and is specifically addressed to the nurseries and gardening companies in the Southern regions of Italy that use the Internet as a communication and promotion tool. The goal of this p…
Identification and sustainable exploitation of wild edible mushrooms in rural areas (Mycoticon, LdV-ToI project): Development of an innovative traini…
2015
In Mediterranean and in southeast Europe the activities of a significant part of the population are traditionally linked with agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry. However, many rural communities are experiencing serious difficulties associated with low income per person and poor employment prospects combined with increased demographic decline. Alternative activities such as the collection and trading of wild edible mushrooms as well as the cultivation of choice species could contribute at providing valuable solutions both in financial and environmental terms. The total number of fungal species which are considered having edible and/or medicinal value is over 2300.1 Most of them form …
Hybrid Energy System for Rural Electrification in Sri Lanka: Design Study
2015
Off-grid hybrid renewable energy based power system for rural electrification has become an attractive solution for areas where grid electricity is not feasible. Depending on the availability of the resources, single energy source or a combination of several sources, including an energy storage system is used in an off-grid hybrid energy system. As there can be several candidates, the optimum sizing of the components against resource potential, cost and reliability is a vital issue. This chapter presents a study of optimum sizing of a renewable sources based off-grid hybrid energy system that is designed for electrifying a rural community in the Siyambalanduwa area in Sri Lanka. The communi…
THE SUCCESS FACTORS OF A SICILIAN MARKET-ORIENTED WINE COOPERATIVE
2014
Wine cooperatives have a long tradition in Sicily, as well as in Italy and in Europe. The objective of this paper is to reconstruct the general framework of the Sicilian wine cooperatives that still account for nearly 80% of the regional wine grapes production. In this context we examine the productive, organizational and commercial strategies of a case study: Cantine Settesoli. Founded in Menfi (Western Sicily, Italy) in 1958 on the initiative of a group of wine grape-growers, the Cantine Settesoli has developed over the decades and now represents the major bottled wine cooperative in Sicily, whose 2,135 members own 5% of Sicilian vineyards. With its four wine-making plants, a volume of gr…
Development and management of winemaking sustainability: an explorative survey in Sicily
2016
Sustainability is reshaping the global wine industry. This paper provides a fact-finding contribution to the knowledge on how the Sicilian winegrowing sector is facing the challenge of the new scenario of sustainable productions. To reach this goal we carried out an explorative analysis of those Sicilian wineries involved in 2 important sustainability programs in the Italian wine sector, Magis and SOStain, aimed at improve the implementation of sustainable viticulture and wine production. The results of our research concerning 5 wineries in Sicily reveal that adopting sustainable productive methods has lead in general to good technical and financial results by improving their business effic…