Rural Developmentpart of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent Universityhttps://www.ugent.be/bw/agricultural-economics/en/research/rdehttps://www.ugent.be/logo.png
Rural Development
About us
The RDE studies rural development with a focus on communities in the Global South. We integrate economics and sociology to increase our understanding on how institutional dynamics affect people who are making a living from sustainable agriculture. With our research outcomes we seek to find institutional changes that may improve the livelihoods of people depending on agriculture in terms of poverty alleviation, improved food and nutrition security and increased resilience to adverse effects.
Research focus and projects
Food security
Food policy
Rural sociology
Rural market access, cooperatives and contracts
Institutional changes in land, labour and market conditions