The Asian and Pacific region is home for over 60 percent of the world’s population and more than 70 percent of the region’s population lives in rural areas and primarily involved in agriculture. Integrating and empowering rural women by promoting women’s entrepreneurship in green cooperatives has been recognized as an important approach to alleviate rural poverty and enhancing sustainable rural...

This article aims at analyzing the features and the dynamics of female agriculture entrepreneurship in terms of Sustainability Empowerment, in the field of the short food supply chain of fruit and vegetables products. Drawing on the data of the last Agriculture Census (2010) in the specific territorial context of Campania Region, the article analyses the impacts of female management in terms of...

entrepreneurship development plays an important role in the socio - economic development of various countries and can overcome many of the problems of these countries. the main objective of this research was to analyze the barriers to entrepreneurship development as perceived by graduate students. the population of this study was graduate students of agriculture faculties in tehran province (n=...

The experience of work in an entrepreneurial context is saturated with emotional experiences. While the literature on the relation between affect and entrepreneurial performance (EP) is growing, there was no quantitative integration of the results so far. This study addresses this gap and meta-analytically integrates the results from 17 studies (N = 3810) in order to estimate the effect size fo...

the main objective followed in this study was to identify and analyze the barriers hindering entrepreneurship in the course of pursuing higher agricultural education. the type of the research was a survey one with the statistical population of the study being consisted of graduate students in agricultural colleges of tehran. the statistical sample comprised of 250 students was selected through ...

the purpose of this research was to study deterrent factors for entrepreneurship in relation with personality and environmental characteristics for graduates of agriculture. the statistical population of the research is composed of graduates (n=98) have been able to establish a business in the field of agricultural production, in boushehr province (one of the southern provinces of iran). validi...

This paper acknowledges the role of entrepreneurship for the development of the process of sustained livelihood. The paper proposes a systematic usage of the ‘Capability’ approach (Sen, 2000) as the basis of the methodology applied by agencies having objectives in lieu with the process of sustained livelihood, because of the wider applicability and span of this approach. Taking examples of rura...

there are more than one million agricultural cooperatives members in iran. in the meantime, the rapid development of the animal husbandry in iran has forced cooperatives to meet the members’ scientific and practical needs for completing production cycle of the dairy industry. livestock production covers a wide spectrum of livestock activities including bee keeping, silkworm raising, and aquacul...