Active social policy as a chance for endogenous rural development

Multifunctional Agriculture: Agriculture Renewal as a Modern Paradigm for Agriculture and Rural Development

Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

GIS Based application for Rural Development - A Policy Warranted

The world is changing very fast. And the expectations of the customers are also changing exponentially. This pace of change are forcing to have phenomenal challenge to all those working in the GI industry. The boom in mobile and internet technologies continues to grow the importance of Geographic Information whilst customers demand better quality, consistency and accuracy of geographic data in ...

Sustainable Development of Rural Areas as a Direction for Economic Policy

Sector-wide Approaches for Agriculture and Rural Development Policy Sector-wide Approaches for Agriculture and Rural Development Policy

1 Sector-wide approaches 2 Agricultural and rural SWAps 3 Why an IFAD policy on agricultural and rural SWAps? 4 EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS LEARNED 7 The link between PRSPs and SWAps 8 The special challenges of the agricultural sector 8 Ownership of agricultural/rural SWAps 9 Agricultural/rural SWAps and decentralization 10 Monitoring the impact of agricultural/rural SWAps 11 The financing of agric...

Social Farming Rural Development Strategy

The paper follows two main objectives: to understand farmers' perception and image of social services and to identify communication levers in order to improve the perceived image of social farming. Orientations in terms of communication are product-focused and aim at enhancing the reputation of social farming consequently with impact on rural development. This paper conducted a questionnaire su...