Rural development has as main subject the rural space as a system in which the main components (natural resources, people) interfere and have a specific (economic, social, cultural, political, institutional) behaviour. The rural household is the main actor in the rural space, owner of the main...

The present paper aims to assess to what extent the rural development policies have had any impact on the Romanian rural household. For this purpose, it was decided to develop a theoretical model for assessing the degree of modernization and socio-economic development of rural areas from the...

The present paper intends to establish a reciprocity relationship between the modernization and development level of the rural space, as main modernization-development point of the rural household. On the basis of the interdependence relation between rural area modernization and development, the...

The main purpose of this research was to establish measures to prevent demographic structural changes, which would positively influence the process of modernization-sustainable development of the rural household and the Romanian rural area. The starting point of the research was the creation of...

The Romanian rural household is the socio-economic unit for which the agricultural activity continues to be the main source of income or at least of supplementing incomes in the form of self-consumption; thus, most rural households overlap the agricultural household farms/peasant...

Based on data collected for 398 communes from the North-West development region of Romania between 2007 and 2014, this article presents a local economic development (LED) index for rural communities and identifies the main factors which influence LED in these communities. Our results show that...

The article is an attempt at presenting the possibilities for applying one of the available research methods to the evaluation of sustainable development. The undertaken research seems to be particularly challenging to conduct due to methodology problems (in terms of the selection of indicators,...

The analysis brings forth the major issues in medicinal plant sector, taking Kerala as a case. The analysis, basically use the supply chain framework, focuses on the Southern Western Ghats part of Kerala, gives the picture of the lopsided sharing of income and hence the side-streamed tribal...

NGOs play a complementary role to government in fulfilling the needs of bottom of the pyramid. They are instrumental in lowering the gap between haves and have nots. They act as caretakers of downtrodden strata of society. NGOs carry out varied activities in the field of human rights, health,...

Cihanbeyli, located in Salt Lake (SL) Basin, is the largest county of Turkey in terms of its area. In total 56.105 people live in the county and its rural population is 7.005. According to data of 2011 year, Cihanbeyli's social development level is at the tenth of 31 counties of the Konya...