This work aims to understand what implications the process of conservative modernization determined the structure of supply of credit costs and investment of the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (PRONAF) for the period 2000-2010. Therefore, we adopted the descriptive...

Model Forests (MFs) are social and participatory processes aiming at the sustainable development of a territory where the forest plays an important role. Individuals and organizations share knowledge and combine expertise and resources to provide income-generating opportunities, balancing...

The purpose of this research is to calculate an index of rural development (IDR) to the municipalities of the state of Goiás, in the interregnum census 1996-2000. Therefore, the idea is that the state has a heterogeneous structure in rural areas that coexist with remarkable degree of...

For many years the discussion about rural development in Brazil was left on the sidelines. The Green Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, and the increased use of technology sparked an incipient and localized debate on regional and rural development. In the 1980s the discussion lost strength due...

The present work presents an analysis of rural education compared to the urban education to support the formulation of educational policies for the rural areas. This area suffered for many years with the absence of specific educational policies, especially since the 1960s, when agricultural...

It has been a long way, until both gender and development were recognized as important issues in academic and political arena. Several fields of science, such as sociology, anthropology, and economy contributed to the knowledge in this area, in addition to recent developments in feminist and...