The character of the youngsters can be sketched by four features: pragmatism, curiosity, insight and the need of appurtenance. In this way, we can understand the youngster's orientation towards new things. Any type of practice can be considered „new”, regardless of its seniority, if it has...

Sustainable development represents a civilization challenge that should meet the needs of today’s generations without jeopardizing the ability of the Earth to meet the needs of the future generations. This challenge, as an evolutionary process in which the social and economic development and...

Globally, poverty is an issue that has generated a lot of concerns to both the government, private individuals and non-governmental organizations. In Nigeria, the alarming growth rate of poverty and its effects on the teeming populace is quite de-humanizing. Successive government in Nigeria...

Lack of access to an adequate, affordable and environmentally friendly energy supply is a severe constraint for development. Financial sustainability and demand-side focus of projects are the most relevant parameters to consider for long-term sustainability of electrification projects according...

The certified organic cotton supply chain is compared to the conventional cotton supply chain in Mali. The most important differences between the two supply chains are highlighted in this study. Switching to organic production may offer a range of potential advantages to cotton farmers,...

Concerns for sustainable development and poverty alleviation are forcing public agricultural research systems to focus on improving livelihoods security. Crop-livestock production systems are central to the livelihood security of the rural poor in India and some other countries of the tropics....

This article proposes a critical assessment of the socio-economic approaches of environment and sustainable development. Unlike the standard analysis which does not admit the embeddedness of economic, social and environmental dimensions, the socio-economic approaches seek to conceptualize these...

The aim of this article consists in measuring in which way health policies in developing countries are contributing to sustainable development goals. Firstly, a return on the terminology and the abstract contents of the sustainable development allows us to identify it with the cumulative and...

A tourism project for sustainable development has been set up in Swaneti (Georgia) in a country where tourism business has been for long centralized by "Intourist". Connected to a strong tradition of welcoming the traveller, tourism is settling again in his mountainous country of Mestia together...