Rural development policy addresses the welfare of rural households and communities. With a majority of the world's poor located in rural areas, the resilience of rural poverty in industrialized countries, and a significant share of environmental degradation the byproduct of rural poverty, the...

The aim of this research is to find a concrete construction methodology of theMetapontum Agro - food district by three main phases: awaking of the operators andthe institutional stakeholders (got together in the district’s local web); economicterritorialanalysis; experimentation. This last...

The aim of this research is to find a concrete construction methodology of the Metapontum Agro - food district by three main phases: awaking of the operators and the institutional stakeholders (got together in the district’s local web); economicterritorial analysis; experimentation. This last...

Our proposal is linked with an European cooperation project bound to Mediterranean agriculture. The paper aims to develop a partially renewed approach of the district concept as a development model for rural areas, applied to the organization of the agroenergy sector. Originally developed by...