This paper assesses the prevalence of stunting and its potential determinants using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Rwanda and Burundi in 2010. Selected child, mother, and household characteristics are described for rural and urban areas in each country and the...

Rural development has as main subject the rural space as a system in which the main components (natural resources, people) interfere and have a specific (economic, social, cultural, political, institutional) behaviour. The rural household is the main actor in the rural space, owner of the main...

The Romanian rural household is the socio-economic unit for which the agricultural activity continues to be the main source of income or at least of supplementing incomes in the form of self-consumption; thus, most rural households overlap the agricultural household farms/peasant...

The goal of this paper is represented by the analysis of the competitive behaviour at rural household level in Ţara Haţegului, according to the economic size of the agricultural activities performed. If we extrapolate the mechanism from firm level to agricultural household level,...

The rural household epitomizes the central socioeconomic unit of the vernacular village. The territorial resources, livestock and human capital shape the particular features of each place and zone. The present study relies upon field research, namely a questionnaire undertaken in 354 rural...

The present paper aims to assess to what extent the rural development policies have had any impact on the Romanian rural household. For this purpose, it was decided to develop a theoretical model for assessing the degree of modernization and socio-economic development of rural areas from the...

The main purpose of this research was to establish measures to prevent demographic structural changes, which would positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The starting point of the research was the creation of...