The value chain (VC) analysis and development can improve the living conditions of the rural population and contribute to food security. The key elements are: the knowledge of a sub-sector which will gradually be building up among the stakeholders, the confidence created among them and the...

The number of new dwellings built in Spain more than doubled between 1997 and 2004. Provisional estimates indicate that the figure might currently be over 800,000. Strikingly, this impressive response of supply to demand has not put a brake on housing prices, which have also doubled in real...