Production of knowledge in the construction of territories represents a strategic challenge for development stakeholders to take concerted, transparent and effective decisions. The aim of this paper is to show how an association, the Assemblée Pyrénéenne d?Économie Montagnarde (APEM), within...

This paper aims at evaluating the capacity of the territorial appro-ach to contribute to poverty issues and Brazilian social inequalities, repre-senting an alternative of employment and income generation in depressed rural territories. Through Consórcios de Segurança Alimentar e...

This communication makes a state of the activities carried out by the WP4P coordination group of the 4th work package "Fundamental methods" of the CAENTI, Coordination Action of the European Network of Territorial Intelligence. The WP4P concerns a technical issue, the evaluation of projects...

As the Brazilian government incentives participation in political decisions and decentralization, in particular by the implementation of territorial policies, the need to capacitate the actors becomes more visible. In the Northeast of Brazil, a Peasant University was thus created in 2003, to...

The so-called territorial approach in regional development consists in assuming that some areas may be considered as self-organised systems of actors, and that socio-cultural features are essential determinants of development dynamics. This article aims at evaluating the domain of validity of...