The whole economic, social and spiritual life depends on the natural resources, put into value under different forms, depending on the human intelligence and knowledge. The international community is increasingly getting aware of the importance of the natural capital in the creation of a...

Climate modification by the progressive warming of the atmosphere resulting from the concerted action of several factors, both natural and anthropic (emission of increasingly large amounts of greenhouse gases), favours the diminution of precipitations at soil level, corroborated with the...

Romania’s agri-food and sustainable rural development strategy, consensual from the political point of view, should be the output of an objective scientific analysis of the agricultural and forestry potential, and adapted, endorsed and supported by all the political and technocratic forces,...

Capitalization is a determinant of farm economic viability, with sustainable contribution to increasing the competitiveness of the agricultural sector. A computation and analysis model has been built for evaluating the endowment of Romanian agricultural holdings with production means, estimating...

The systemic conceptual pattern of the investigated rural community – Clopotiva village – is the result of a functional rural system structured by three main components: the physical (natural) subsystem, the social subsystem and the economic subsystem. As regards the existing relationships...

In an anthropized ecosystem, the interactions are represented by the multitude of possible combinations between its structural elements; among these, the most important groups of interactions are those in which people are also involved. In the transformed ecosystems, with different...

The present paper is based on the idea according to which the present situation of the Romanian agriculture, its development level and the development of rural area in its most part, are largely determined by Romania’s agrarian structure. The paper investigates Romania’s current agrarian...

It should be emphasized that the network concept has become widely used in the socio-economic studies of the economic life. Following the debates around research development, the networks may also have particular utility in making understandable the different forms of rural development. This...

“Subsistence and semi-subsistence farming” has been a research topic in the last decades on which a generally agreed definition was not reached yet. The main approaches to this subject are based on some criteria such as: farm size, economic size and market participation. In the context of...

The rural development network is meant to build up sustainable partnerships between the academic/university nuclei and the rural players, to develop and refine the instruments used in the investigation and dissemination of good practices. An efficient rural development network also aims at...