International Online Course: Social Innovation in Rural Areas
The European project SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas) is organising a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) on social innovation in rural areas...
DESIRA project brings digital technologies to forests and rural areas
The DESIRA (Digitisation: Economic and Social Impacts on Rural Areas) research initiative is a four-year Horizon 2020 project coordinated by the University of Pisa...
Call for abstracts: 13th RSAI World Congress in Morocco
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association (AMSR) invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of...
Forest bioeconomy to counter rural depopulation in Spain
The city of Cuenca has the most important urban forest area in Spain, and the third largest in the European Union with 53,000 hectares...
Call for abstracts – 13th World Congress of the Regional Science Association International
The Regional Science Association International (RSAI) and the Moroccan Regional Science Association invite regional scientists, economists, economic geographers, urban planners, policy makers, and researchers of...
SIMRA’s October sessions: Lessons learned from the project innovation actions
On 7 and 8 October EFIMED organised two workshops in the province of Teruel (Aragon, Spain) to close the Innovative Action that EFI leads...
Have your forest, and (your livestock) eat it too
Forest may not be the first image that springs to mind when visualising
the Iranian landscape. Yet, the open, semi-arid forests of Iran’s Zagros region
are...
Regional collaboration is the key to Europe’s bioeconomy
Europe’s rural regions face a triple threat: how to adapt to climate change, protect biodiversity, and still provide for human needs—in rural, as well...
Bioregions Forum 2018
13 November, 2018, Barcelona, Spain.
The bioeconomy takes different shapes in different regions through innovative and tailored combination of biomass production and processing capacities, agro-ecological...
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Who harvests non-wood forest products in Spain? A snapshot of a...
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs), such as mushrooms, cork, resin, pine nuts, chestnuts, and mastic, are a vital yet often overlooked part of rural economies...
