Recognizing that poverty in the fields of Latin America has not been overcome with the model of agribusiness and agro-exporting, the paradigm of new rurality emerges as a response to meet the demands of the rural areas. This vision is now the basis of rural policies in Latin America and other...

This paper claims that the European Union (EU) has had a very peculiar relationship with the globalized post-Cold War economic order. On the one hand, the EU was instrumental in bringing about this order. It aggressively promoted (both internally and externally) the principles and policies upon...

The importance of EU Cohesion policy can be found in three main directions - more efficient functioning of the single economic area, greater weight of Europe in the world, sustainable development of the Union. Regional level for the implementation of Cohesion policy has several advantages – it...

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

The changes that are taking place recently in the Brazilian economy raise some questions about its future. The goal of this paper is to analyze the differences in the productive structure in the Brazilian economy and five macro regions for the years of 1985, 1990, and 1995, using some...

Bu çalışmanın amacı küreselleşme-yerelleşme eğilimlerine koşut olarak bölgesel politikalarda yaşanan dönüşümleri incelemektir. Bu çerçevede yaşanan dönüşümlerin Türkiye’deki kalkınma planlarının bölgesel politikalarında yarattığı değişimleri (planlarındaki...

The presentation structured in two parts aims to reveal a short diagnosis of the Romanian rural planning system. The first part is centred upon general aspects regarding features of the rural settlements system, according with national and regional peculiarities. A short view is given to a...

An estimated 85% of Afghanistan’s population lives in rural areas, most of which are resource poor farmers whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and livestock in agro-pastoral or crop-livestock systems. Agriculture – including the processing of agricultural and livestock products --...

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by 2015, within a wide range of Chinese policy documents. The analysis suggests there are weaknesses in certain targets due to the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent...

Decentralizing a large, complex national extension system is not easy, but the Government of India appears to be moving toward this long-term goal. Although ATMA model has been successful in addressing many of the extension problems and has shown exceptional impacts during the NATP phase but it...