This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, as manifested in the tradition of collective farming practice, has changed. Collective rice farming persisted for decades, irrespective of critical events that challenged its continuation, due to two key factors: the high need for collective farming to ensure subsistence, and the availability of a closel...

this article identifies the factors which create and maintain the long term relationship between industrial crane suppliers and their buyers. a random sample of 79 respondents of buying companies was tested by structural equation models with lisrel and pls. findings revealed that latent variables like satisfaction, trust, commitment and intention to continue relationship had goodness of fit. th...

We characterised the livestock-farming management strategies of multiple-job holders and identified which variables contributed most to the differentiation of these strategies. We hypothesised that they would mainly be differentiated by the contribution of the farming income to the total household income and the availability of the household members for farming. The multiple-job holding livesto...