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: Eric Livny, Irakli Kochlamazashvili and David Zhorzholiani; Agriculture; 24 October 2016; Hits: 1486; Rating:

The Shortest Road to Strawberry Field Isn’t Always the Sweetest, or Quickest

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Creating new business (which is what a production cooperative actually is) to a donor deadline is prone with a lot of risk. This is what Nino Kvirkvelia and her husband Irakli Todua had to learn...

Tags: Agriculture, Rural Development, Farmer Cooperation, Productivity, Donor Assistance

: Eric Livny and Salome Deisadze; Agriculture; 22 October 2016; Hits: 1656; Rating:

Back to the Future: Will an Old Farming Practice Provide a Market Niche for Georgian Farmers?

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While Georgia does not have the scale to compete with much larger producers in the standard wine segment, it can gain share in special niche markets, such as biodynamic wines, which retail in Europe at...

Tags: Transition, Agriculture, Tech & Innovation, International Trade, Transition and Development, Georgia

: Eric Livny and Ia Katsia; Agriculture; 05 April 2016; Hits: 1588; Rating:

XXI Century Arrives to Kakheti, with soplidan.ge

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Online shopping platforms, such as soplidan.ge, may offer small producers and farmers the opportunity to capture a higher share of the value by cutting out some of the middlemen. Moreover, many of Europe’s online selling...

Tags: Transition, Agriculture, Rural Development, Transition and Development, Georgia

: Eric Livny and Rati Kochlamazashvili; Agriculture; 14 March 2016; Hits: 1774; Rating:

A Portrait of a Tushetian Farmer as an Entrepreneur

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In 2013, as his plastic windows business started winding down, Gogi Elanidze hit upon a new idea: a goat milk farm. He’s read about the health benefits of organic goat milk. He’s heard of French...

Tags: Agriculture, Rural Development, Georgia

: Eric Livny; Agriculture; 22 February 2016; Hits: 1832; Rating:

A Georgian Man without Land Is Nobody?

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Not selling their tiny plots of land and not moving out of agriculture may be a rational strategy for most Georgian smallholders given the low level of selling prices and the lack of suitable employment...

Tags: Agriculture, Rural Development, Georgia

: Eric Livny, Nino Zambakhidze and Lasha Lanchava; Agriculture; 15 February 2016; Hits: 2241; Rating:

Young Seedlings of Georgia's Agriculture

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Georgia's ambitious youth don't necessarily want to stay in their ancestral villages. What kind of future can they have in farming activities on tiny plots of land, with no guaranteed access to markets, no insurance...

Tags: Agriculture, Georgia

The Shortest Road to Strawberry Field Isn’t Always the Sweetest, or Quickest

Back to the Future: Will an Old Farming Practice Provide a Market Niche for Georgian Farmers?

XXI Century Arrives to Kakheti, with soplidan.ge

A Portrait of a Tushetian Farmer as an Entrepreneur

A Georgian Man without Land Is Nobody?

Young Seedlings of Georgia's Agriculture

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