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The analyses focus on the structural change in agriculture and farm households for the selected hilly and mountainous areas in Slovenia before and after the accession to the European Union, with an emphasis on empirical analysis of a sample of i[...]Article
N. Molina ; G. Brunori ; E. Favilli ; S. Grando ; P. Proietti |Recently, the interpretation of the innovation process has changed significantly. Its linear model has evolved to a dynamic and ongoing participatory approach where cooperation, oriented to generate co-ownership, is the essence to co-produce kno[...]Article
V. Alary ; M.E. Caulfield ; L. Amsidder ; X. Juanes ; I. Boujenane ; M.T. Sraïri ; A. Sam ; J. Hammond ; M. van Wijk |A large proportion of rural households, particularly in the dry land areas, representative for more than 10% of the world's land surface and up to 80% in Morocco, depend for their livelihoods on livestock. They exploit livestock's capacity to li[...]Article
Wine tourism is one of the best opportunities for rural development, but because it is partially exposed to climatic conditions, it is a climate-vulnerable tourism activity. However, an understanding of the potential impacts of global climate ch[...]Article
The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization [...]Article
This work addresses the relevance of immigrant communities in a specific agricultural sector, extensive livestock husbandry pastoralism. This activity provides a primary source of employment and income specifically in inner and remote rural ar[...]Article
A. Baselice ; M. Lombardi ; M. Prosperi ; A. Stasi ; A. Lopolito |The European Union promotes social innovation (SI) initiatives for the support of marginalised rural areas through rural and sustainable development policies. These are based on the engagement of local actors and the strengthening of their mutua[...]Article
Malgré de nombreuses mesures daccompagnement à la réduction des pesticides, leur usage ne cesse de croître en France. Doit-on pour autant considérer que rien ne change ? Cet article veut mettre en lumière la manière dont des acteurs de la[...]Article
Migration is inseparable from social and economic transformations and it plays a crucial role in shaping rural livelihoods. In this paper we review the existing evidence on internal and international migration in four countries of the North Afri[...]Article
This study examines how the Covid-19 pandemic crises has not only modified networks and rhythms of human movement and migratory flows on both a global and local scale; yet it also has weakened the hegemony of the prevailing paradigm that conside[...]Article
D.S. Cristea ; S. Rosenberg ; A. Pustianu Mocanu ; I.A. Simionov ; A.A. Mogodan ; S.M. Petrea ; L.M. Moga |This research provides an analytical and predictive framework, based on state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) algorithms (random forest (RF) and generalized additive models (GAM)), that can be used to assess and improve the Common Agricultural [...]Article
S.S. Maican ; A.C. Muntean ; C.A. Pastiu ; S. Stepien ; J. Polcyn ; I. Dobra ; M. Darja ; C.O. Moisa |The agricultural sector ensures food security and is a major source of employment, income, and economic activity in rural areas. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) considers that family farms are the key to a susta[...]Article
Les territoires ruraux sont des territoires davenir. Ils disposent de toutes les ressources pour participer au développement économique de lhexagone.Article
Cet article analyse la place des chaînes alimentaires courtes de proximité dans la politique de développement rural (PDR) en Occitanie. Lanalyse textuelle des PDR Midi-Pyrénées et Languedoc-Roussillon 2014-2020 et de leurs respectifs appels à p[...]Article
In recent decades, alongside industrialized agriculture and food-supply systems, an alternative, network-based framework has evolved supporting local development, social innovation and sustainability objectives. Short supply chains are in the fo[...]Article
The Southeastern Spanish Region of Guadix is a mainly agrarian territory located in the Granada province, which is in demographic decline and has low economic dynamism. Reversing such a difficult socioeconomic situation requires the implementati[...]Article
W. Berthomière ; J. Fromentin ; C. Hochedez ; C. Imbert ; D. Lessault ; P. Pistre ; S. Przybyl |Moins étudiées et documentées que dans les villes, les présences étrangères dans les campagnes françaises restent aujourdhui plus discrètes et souvent méconnues. Pourtant, de nouvelles migrations internationales traversent les espaces ruraux et[...]Article
Un intérêt de plus en plus grandissant est porté sur l'entrepreneuriat en milieu rural et sur la promotion dentreprises dites « vertes ». Diverses politiques ont été adoptées pour pouvoir lencadrer. Ce travail cherche à étudier lentrepreneuri[...]Article
I. Vazquez-Gonzalez ; M. Do Mar Pérez-Fra ; A.I. Garcia-Arias ; B. Valdês-Paços ; E. López Iglesias |Humans have traditionally sought provisioning services from rural areas, but society is becoming increasingly aware of other services that rural areas provide to human beings, agroecosystem services. At the same time, however, certain dysservice[...]Article
Cet article analyse la gouvernance relative à la mise en uvre de la Politique de renouveau rural (PRR) dans la wilaya de Bejaïa, en Algérie. Il vise à mettre en évidence les difficultés de la co-construction de laction publique territoriale, s[...]Article
In this study, it was aimed to determine the participation tendencies in organic agriculture activities of women living in rural areas of the northwestern part of Turkey. The data were collected from 183 rural women by simple random sampling met[...]Article
M. Viccaro ; M. Viccaro ; S. Romano ; C. Prete ; M. Cozzi |Home to about 45% of the global population, rich in natural resources and ecosystems with a high value, rural areas play a key role in implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, some rural areas continue to face stru[...]Article
The association of farmers as a model of sustainable rural development is a significant factor in the rapid development of agriculture and the improvement of the position of agricultural producers. The economic importance of cooperatives in the [...]Article
This paper deals with gendering innovation, with the purpose of exploring the entrepreneurial spaces of innovation among Italian farms managed by women. More precisely, the hypothesis is that entrepreneurial orientation has to be considered th[...]Article
The Europe 2030 project identified the need to create a growth model that is based on a dynamic balance between economic, social, and environmental dimensions. This involves, among other objectives, redirecting the resources that are allocated t[...]Article
Agroecology can be considered an approach to farming and food systems which integrates the use of ecological principles and biological cycles methods of the traditional systems to the design and management of sustainable agriculture. Despite som[...]Article
M. Aronica ; M.F. Cracolici ; D. Insolda ; D. Piacentino ; S. Tosi |Rural areas still suffer from a lack of sustainable development, and the diversification of farms may be a step in the right direction. The paper provides a detailed picture of the diversification of Sicilian farms into tourism services. Specifi[...]Article
The article aims to present the essence of agritourism in the literature regarding the subject of its profitability during the COVID-19 pandemic. To verify the goal, data from our own research was applied. The research was conducted in 2019 and [...]Article
Depopulation is one of the main problems in declining rural territories, whose inhabitants have the perception of being immersed in a spiral of socio-economic deterioration where each setback experienced in the region push a greater number of yo[...]Article
The depopulation of rural areas in Spain, a phenomenon that has given rise to what is currently known as empty Spain, has become a serious social problem. The mass exodus of the young to the country's cities poses the main threat to rural sust[...]