The institutions which support fair trade offer solutions capable of combining the benefits of international trade with socially, economically and environmentally sustainable enterprise. The case of the creation of the supply chain for the harvesting and sale of Brazil nuts and its evolution...

The modernization of agriculture has a well-established theoretical basis from Capitalist, Marxist and Keynesian approaches. These approaches have different bases of departure: market mechanisms and state planning. But these different approaches require an identical exogenous path of development...

The content relating to the protection of the landscape in the planning tools are not alwais set according to a plan for convergence and synergies. In the paper the following possible solution aimed at activating unifying process to the overall territorial variables, including rural.

Rural economy, that is, the integrated system of non-homogeneous activities as performed out of urban areas, has very often been confused, in the development literature, with agricultural economy, which aims at the increase of agricultural and zootechnic production. The two terms imply distinct,...

The rural development policy has received considerable attention in recent years by many governments, especially as a strategic tool for the development sector and the introduction of innovations in rural areas. In this context, the project integrated supply chain implements an operation mode...

The current demand for agricultural products shows an increasing trend, due to population growth and rise in incomes. Unprecedented potential consumption levels cast unknown scenarios for the world. As the world will soon be faced with Malthus Law and its unavoidable consequences, the main issue...

Food demand appears to be steadily increasing, as a function of population growth and income. These levels of consumption, never seen in the past, project the world into unknown scenarios, soon called to test the validity of Malthus law and its consequences. While questioning the capacity of...