Beekeeping is an important source of income in the Northern province of Sierra Leone. However, smallholder farmers' beekeeping practices were heavily influenced by the traditional system, and they sold their honey to local vendors at the local market. According to the findings, beekeeping was a male-dominated …

The coffee is the main cash crop grown in Rwanda, especially in the Gakenke district where the research has been conducted. Coffee is farmed mostly by smallholder farmers on plots of less than one hectare. Coffee production in Rwanda has grown in recent years, and prospects for a better income pushed …

The avocado production is considered as a main source of income for farmers who are Abogeta West growers’ cooperative members in Meru County. In our days, the available previous studies showed that avocado losses account for 35% for the local chain and 15% for the export chain but there was a scarcity …

As a full company, with corresponding overhead costs, the average cost to hire a designer working for Witteveen + Bos is €90 per hour. In comparison, an experienced self employed designer working from home with a yearly income of €100.000 will do the same job for roughly €60 to €70 per hour (€100.000 …

In this paper, we apply a civic perspective and social innovation theory to examine how residents of a Dutch village experiencing rural depopulation and austerity reforms evaluate a civic initiative aimed at improving liveability, and what explains their evaluation. Using multivariate statistical analysis, …

Hometown is dedicated to the economically homeless: the nest flyers, the singles on a low income, the pensioners, collectives, students, a wide variety of home seekers who hardly have a chance to succeed in the present housing situation. The whole spectrum of financial, legal, social, urban, and architectural …

Unitron is een sterk groeiende organisatie. Het heeft vier grote omzetstromen, namelijk; Ontwikkeling, CE (certificering), Design Transfer en Productie. De werkwijze die Unitron nu heeft, geeft geen inzicht in de kosten en resultaten per omzetstroom. Door een voorgaand onderzoek naar Lean accounting …

Historian Yuval Harari writes in his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that due to increasing automation and robotization, large groups of people will probably become completely redundant in the labour market in the near future. He proposes a basic income as a solution. In this article it is argued that …

The majority of Dutch peatlands are drained and used intensively as grasslands for dairy farming. This delivers high productivity but causes severe damage to the provisioning of ecosystem services. Peatland rewetting is the best way to reverse the damage, but high water levels do not fit with intensive …

Artists and other cultural workers have tried to create stable, long-term collective income systems for themselves forever. In 2004, an American tech entrepreneur launched one of the most ambitious redistribution schemes up to date, the Artist Pension Trust (APT). The idea was to give artists not just …