Geo-management in organic agriculture

Information about authors of the monograph Editors: Skrypchuk P., Doctor of Economics, professor, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, head of NGO «Green Initiatives Rivne», Ukraine, chapter 1.3., 2.1., 2.2., 5.1.; Jozef Zaťko, Dr.h.c. mult. JUDr., Honor. Prof. mult., Prezident ICOCRIM SlovakBureau,Riaditeľ Východoeurópskej agentúry pre rozvoj n.o., Prezident Európsky inštitút ďalšieho vzdelávania, Slovakia, chapter 1.2.; 1. Baldzhy M., Doctor of Economics, professor, Odesa National Economic University, Odesa, Ukraine, chapter 2.2; 2. Breus D., Ph.D. in Agriculture, assistant, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 2.3.; 3. Dudiak N., Ph.D. in Economics, associate professor, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 2.3.; 4. Grabovska T., PhD in Agriculture, associate professor, Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, chapter 3.1.; 5. Khomiuk N., PhD in Economics, Doctoral Student of the Department of International Economic Relations and Project Management,Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University, Lutsk, Ukraine, chapter 5.2.; 6. Lavrov V., Doctor of Agriculture, professor, Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine, chapter 3.1.; 7. Novytska I., post-graduate student, Poltava National Technical University named after Yurii Kondratiuk, Poltava, Ukraine, chapter 3.3.; 8. Panasiuk Damian, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences, Warsaw,Poland, chapter 5.1.; 9. Pichura V., Doctor of Agriculture, associate professor, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 2.3.; 10. Potravka L., Doctor of Economics, associate professor, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 2.3.; 11. Rybak V., PhD in Agriculture, associate professor, Khmelnystkyi national university, Khmelnystkyi, Ukraine, chapter 2.1.; 12. Shcherbakova A., PhD in Economics, associate professor, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, co-founder of NGO "Green Initiatives Rivne», Ukraine, chapter 1.1.; 13. Shevchuk N., PhD in Agriculture, associate professor, Khmelnystkyi national university, Khmelnystkyi, Ukraine, chapter 6.3.; 14. Shpak G., Ph.D. in Economics, senior lecturer, Technical College of National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, chapter 6.1, 6.2.; 15. Skok S., Ph.D. in Agriculture, associate professor, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 5.3.; 16. Skrypchuk V., student, Matea Bela University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, chapter 1.2.; 17. Stroganov O., graduate student, Kherson State Agrarian University, Kherson, Ukraine, chapter 2.3.; 18. Suduk O., PhD in Agriculture, associate professor, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, co-founder of NGO "Green Initiatives Rivne», Ukraine, chapter 4; 19. Ternowyi U. PhD in Agriculture, Skvyra Research Station of Organic Production of Institute of Agroecology and Nature Resources Use of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, Skvyra, Ukraine, chapter 3.1.; 20. TiutiunnykH., Ph.D. in Economics, Junior Research Fellow, Institute of Market Problems and Economic&EcologicalResearch of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Odesa, Ukraine, chapter 3.2.; 21. Trembitska O., PhD in Agriculture, associate professor, Zhytomyr National Agroecological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, chapter 6.3. 22. Trokhliuk T., Ph.D. in Economics, senior lecturer, Berezno Forestry College of National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, chapter 6.1.; 23. Zhukovskyi V., PhD in Technical sciences, senior lecturer, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Rivne, Ukraine, chapter 2.4

Making space for reading : a study of rural reading rooms in Yunnan Province, PRC

This thesis aims to explore the meanings behind rural reading rooms (tushushi) in Yunnan Province, PRC. Rural reading rooms are small libraries attached to the village Party compound in Chinese villages; for the past decade 600 000 reading rooms have been established in administrative villages in China, and now benefit more than 1 billion farmers in what is arguably the world’s most important developing nation. These reading rooms could potentially provide reading- and information spaces in villages where these have been lacking. They could be described as a major development project carried out by the state in an attempt to modernise rural regions. Reading rooms are part of the attempt to build what is labelled “a new socialist countryside” in the PRC, a major national policy package designed to modernise rural regions that have been central to central state planning on rural regions since the 11th 5-year Plan was presented in 2006.This thesis aims to explore the relation between state policy and local reality in relation to reading rooms; to what extent are reading rooms part of local life, and how can we understand the functions of reading rooms? Are they just part of state blueprints for rural regions or do they carry communal value? The thesis is based on extensive fieldwork in Yunnan Province, and follows an ethnographic approach, where grounded theory has been used both during fieldwork and the writing process. Reading rooms have been positioned within governmentality theory as away of shedding light on the usage and meaning of educational spaces within villages; as state projects with ideological underpinnings that needs to be understood both in relation to the state, and local realities.Explores the meaning of reading rooms in villages in Yunnan Province, China. Reading rooms are small libraries aimed at farmers. The thesis describes reading rooms and their meaning, both at national and local level. It is an ethnographic account of village life, based on fieldwork in China

Understanding barriers and opportunities in agricultural information management in post-Soviet states: a case study of Kazakhstan.

After the break-up of the former Soviet Union in 1991, several states declared independence, including the Republic of Kazakhstan. Under the centralised soviet system Kazakhstan provided mainly raw materials to the USSR, and agriculture operated under a Moscow-based command and control model. Kazakhstan possesses vast wealth of mineral and energy resources and its agricultural land is well able to ensure national food security. However, after independence the rapid and frequently unplanned state actions such as land reform, taken to move from socialism to a market economy, were not always successful and the state of agriculture was initially one of chaos. A major exodus from the land to the cities ensued. Gradually Kazakhstani agriculture recovered some of its productivity but still lags well behind developed nations in the use of ICT supported agricultural information management (AIM). This research contributes to new knowledge in the area of ICT-based AIM by supplementing the limited statistical and scientific analyses of Kazakh agriculture by seeking to discover, through semi-structured interviews, the views and perceptions of agrarians who are both the customers and end users of ICT-based AIM in a post-soviet state. The researcher established that agrarian stakeholders were aware of the need for a centralised AIM system, but felt that to implement it, more assistance was required from the state. Kazakhstan can learn from the experiences of both developed and developing countries in furthering ICT-based AIM, and although its situation is unique, understanding of the perceptions of end users, who have had to make a series of flawed initiatives work, will arguably be relevant to policy makers in other post-soviet states

Recent Progress in Urbanisation Dynamics Research

This book is dedicated to urbanization, which is observed every day, as well as the methods and techniques of monitoring and analyzing this phenomenon. In the 21st century, urbanization has gained momentum, and the awareness of the significance and influence of this phenomenon on our lives make us take a closer look at it not only with curiosity, but also great attention. There are numerous reasons for this, among which the economy is of special significance, but it also has many results, namely, economic, social, and environmental. First of all, it is a spatial phenomenon, as all of the aspects can be placed in space. We would therefore like to draw special attention to the results of urbanization seen on the Earth's surface and in the surrounding space. The urbanization–land relation seems obvious, but is also interesting and multi-layered. The development of science and technology provides a lot of new tools for observing urbanization, as well as the analyses and inference of the phenomenon in space. This book is devoted to in-depth analysis of past, present and future urbanization processes all over the world. We present the latest trends of research that use experience in the widely understood geography of the area. This book is focused on multidisciplinary phenomenon, i.e., urbanization, with the use of the satellite and photogrammetric observation technologies and GIS analyses

Nongmingong going online: an ethnography of the mediated work and life experience of the Chinese working-class in ‘digital China’

This dissertation, based primarily on 10-month fieldwork in the Weida factory in Dongguan, China and home visits with workers I met there, explores the subjective experience of nongmingong, rural-to-urban migrant workers, confronting China’s recent ICTs-driven economic restructuring in both work and leisure. This study contributes to sociology of labour research in China by addressing the new complexities brought about by digital technologies, and internationally to debates of digital labour and the future of work from the vintage point of the subjective experience of working class in Global South developing economies. Whether supported by the state or driven by market forces, digital technologies are becoming integrated into nongmingong’s life at an unprecedented pace, adding new complexities to the process of class formation. Incorporating the theory of the mutual shaping of technology and user/society into the larger framework of working class formation, this research takes nongmingong’s ICTs-enabled practices as the starting place for an intersectional analysis that considers class and gender, in order to understand their ICTs-mediated politics of class formation in terms of work and leisure. The findings show that ICTs-enabled jobs provide nongmingong with opportunities to improve the harsh factory working conditions and contribute to their economic security at a time of economic turbulence, allowing them to address their felt responsibilities and concerns in ways that are classed and gendered, especially as regards the family’s subsistence and upward mobility. The findings show further that taking up these opportunities positions nongmingong in various technologically-mediated production regimes, engendering different dynamics of exploitation and resistance. Politics of production aside, in the cultural realm the commercially-produced and politically-censored ICTs-enabled media entertainments allow them to negotiate alienating dagong (working for a boss) life, but they also confine them in a web of dominant meanings. In face of this discursive domination, nongmingong actively select and interpret media meanings, accepting some while rejecting others, according to a bitter and precarious structure of feeling

Organizational-economic mechanism of management innovative development of economic entities: collective monograph

The authors of the book have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to effectively use modern approaches the management of innovative development the economic entities in order to increase the efficiency of activity, to ensure competitiveness, to intensify innovation activity. Basic research focuses on assessing the innovation processes, the fourth generation of new industrial revolution, diagnosis of sources of innovation financing, assessment of social innovations. The research results have been implemented in the different models of development innovation management, renewable energy, introduction of start-up projects and lifelong learning. The results of the study can be used in decision-making at the level the economic entities in different areas of activity and organizational-legal forms of ownership, ministries and departments that promote of development the economic entities on an innovative basis. The results can also be used by students and young scientists in modern concepts and mechanisms for management of innovative development the economic entities in the context of efficient use the resource potential and improvement of innovation policy

Business Risk in Changing Dynamics of Global Village 2

The monograph is prepared based on the presentations and discussions made at the II International Conference “BUSINESS RISK IN CHANGING DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL VILLAGE (BRCDGV 2019)”, November, 7th-08th, 2019, in Ternopil, Ukraine. The aim of this scientific international conference is to provide a platform for professional debate with the participation of experts from around the globe in order to identify & analyze risks and opportunities in today’s global business, and specifically in Ukraine. The conference will provide a framework for researchers, business elites and decision makers to uplift the business ties and minimise the risk for creating a better world and better Ukraine.The Conference is designed to call experts around the globe from different sectors of practices which are effected by globalization and watching changes in Europe as well as in Ukraine. It is an excellent platform for interactions and communication between academicians, corporate representatives, policy makers, representatives of organizations and community, as well as individuals being the part of this globalized world. The 1st edition of this conference was held at the University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Poland (2017); the 2nd edition took place at Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University, Ukraine (2019); the 3rd edition will be organized at Patna University, India (2020) in cooperation with Indo-European Education Foundation (IEEF, Poland) and its partner universities from Poland, India, Europe and other part of the world.Under modern conditions of globalization nowadays, economic activity is undergoing changes. Innovative technologies, new forms of business, dynamic changes taking place in the world today result in the emergence of the necessity to minimize risks in order to maximize benefits. The cooperation between experts from different fields with the aim to ensure sustainable growth – policymakers, scientists, universities representatives and business elites is essential nowadays. With the purpose to bring them together and discuss the main issues of todays’ global world this conference took place in Ternopil, Ukraine. As Ukraine is now passing through a dynamic period of changes, recommendations coming up from such discussions can be very beneficial for building stronger society and meet the risks globalization brings up. This monograph provides a useful review of economic, financial and policy issues in the context of globalization processes and has proven extremely popular with practitioners and industry advisors. This edition is given the continued high demand and interest for experts form different areas working on diminishing of business risks wishing to keep abreast of current thinking on this subject. According to many experts process of managing risks is currently one of the most relevant business technologies and at the same time it is a complex process which requires ground knowledge in the research field and practical experience. The popularity of business risks management is due to objective reasons such as dynamics of society, interconnections and interdependence between different players in the society, increasing role of human capital in the country’s sustainable developmen