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Synthesis and recommendations
Introduction As stated previously, the aim of the ESoF study was to analyse the economic, political and cultural factors which…
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How farmers are framed: beliefs and perceptions
In the debates about the regulation of food the role of the individual farmer is an issue (as ESOF demonstrates)…
Basics 5 min read
The global context: from overproduction to scarcity?
The CAP reform process is notable for its sluggish pace and the inertia associated with changes to a core policy…
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Rural development plans: institutional contexts for entrepreneurial farmers
The Rural Development Plans that have been produced in each country, designed to respond to local economic, social and environmental…
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Farmer behaviour and the uneven distributions of farmers’ entrepreneurial skills
The ESOF project responds to the perception that the trajectory of CAP reform, the increasing integration of agricultural and rural…
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The ESoF project within its policy context: CAP reform, global change and the response of farmers
Introduction As noted elsewhere the ESOF project was funded to identify and to analyse the economic, social and cultural factors…
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Comparison of the Polish results of the main stage with those from the other countries
While assessing the results relating to Polish farms, it must be strongly emphasised that they are exclusively representative of farmlands…
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Special situation of Eastern European Countries
General introduction to land ownership during socialism A few years after World War II, very unfavourable changes in the ownership…
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Didactic issues
There is also plenty of literature about didactics, especially in e-learning contexts. These are the criteria taken account of in…
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E-learning and self-assessment tool – developing entrepreneurial skills
This section is about the tool developed within EsoF. This tool will be presented as a web-based e-learning tool for…
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Results of the national and EU seminars
The ideas elaborated in the national stakeholder seminars in particular were very diverse and detailed. In the following they are…
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Developing strategies and tools to promote the development of entrepreneurial skills (Work package 5)
Introduction Work packages 2 to 4 contained the main empirical and analytical work of the project. Work package 5 was…
