Globally, food security is one of the most relevant topics to deal with. In Mexico, one way to fight poverty and hunger is the Special Program for Food Security (SPFS), the main objective of which is that marginalized rural ...

In Mexico, savings banks are utilized by small producers of the rural environment as a strategy to obtain financing for productive activities and to solve economic problems; however, low levels of social and financial ...

The multifunctional role of agriculture —in its productive, social and environmental aspects— is considered a legitimate objective of agricultural policies. However, there is much debate about the best way to promote these ...

This communication reports the analysis of the most important economic and business activities in Sierra Norte (Madrid) and its formative needs at a local level. Its main objective is to identify formative necessities at ...

The European Union (EU) and Mexico share finance resource allocation and management models at local level for social and economic cohesion of their regions. Local Action Groups (GAL, for their Spanish initials) are included ...

In the last years projects of rural development with managerial approach have been executed to improvement the efficiency and project efficiency of intervention in rural zones, such is the case of the “Project of Restructuring ...

Rural/local development requires people that are capable of undertaking the management of their activities, integrating them in the overall view of the land they inhabit. Rural schools represent their first training ...

The low prices that the producer of bean (Phaseolusvulgaris L.) receives, that does not allow him to recover the production costs, justifies a study of the different prices levels throughout the productive chain. With the ...

Marginalization is a structural phenomenon in social development, expresses the difficulty of spreading technical progress among regions and the exclusion of social groups of the development process (CONAPO, 2005). We used ...

Land consolidation has demonstrated to be a necessary tool for rural development, preserving its usefulness in those areas where dimension of farms continue to be a limitation for their growth. Nevertheless, the current ...