In rural areas the natural resource soil has been heavily depleted due to inadequate farm practices, which may result in chemical soil degradation, physical soil degradation and mostly results in social and economic ...

Non-agricultural rural employment accounts for an increasing proportion of total rural employment in Latin America. Its potential for stimulating rural development has been noted, but it has also been analysed as a focal ...

This dissertation has as its central theme the permanence of new generations, children of farmers, in rural areas. However, unlike other studies on the generational succession of young farmers in the countryside, this ...

This paper considers the evolution of processes applied in agriculture for field operations developed from non-organized handmade activities into very specialized and organized production processes. A set of new approaches ...

This work approaches the subject of the new functions of the Brazilian agricultural space; being more specific it is about non-agriculturists rural activities practiced in some rural establishments. The focus of this study ...