The project was born out of the interest of the municipalities involved, in employment in disadvantaged rural areas, taking advantage of natural resources. And given the real development of the biomass sector of forest ...

Human Development Index (HDI) has become a very useful tool for measuring development and making inter-country comparisons. The observation of its trajectory and evolution by country arouses the curiosity of students of ...

Studies from the perspective of gender in rural development programmes which include “horizontal" positive actions aimed at rural women, are rare. There is a need to generate knowledge concerned with effects of such programs ...

To design rural development programs, a deep knowledge of the territory is required, being necessary the elaboration of previous studies. This implies a need to question: What should we really know in order to define the ...

Following the relative success of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has proposed an agenda for 2015-2030, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The SDG consist of 17 objectives with 169 goals ...