Rural Development Economicspart 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
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.
Education
Nutrition and food policy
Rural development
Development economics
Sociological perspectives on agriculture
Rural project management
Seminars in rural development
Research focus
Food security
Food policy
Rural sociology
Rural market access, cooperatives and contracts
Institutional changes in land, labour and market conditions
