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 conditions and needs, differ from each other in many respects…
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 development policy, and the changing nature of the marketplace will…
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 that stimulate the development of entrepreneurial skills, and it aimed…
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 larger than the average farm in terms of the size…
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 structure of agricultural land took place in those European countries…
Didactic issues
There is also plenty of literature about didactics, especially in e-learning contexts. These are the criteria taken account of in the tool: It is important that the learners become emotionally…
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 farmers, integrating self-assessments. Presented in this section are the aims…
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 clustered in accordance with the main results of the main…
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 dedicated to synthesising the results into recommendations and tools at…
Approach and research questions
The core issues in the main stage concerned the assessment and development of entrepreneurial skills. In methodological terms these issues were approached by utilising rhetorical and relational social psychology (Billig…
