The Moroccan State’s strategy since independence has been aimed at limiting the weight of cities and maintaining rural rural areas in the countryside by means of a rural spatial planning and equipment policy, a refusal of industrialist choice. Despite this proactive attitude, public action has at th...

This article contains the main results of a research project on representations, expectations and life strategies of young rural women in Morocco. Starting from the polysemia of the youth category, the narratives of these women address issues such as what it means for them to be young, that they per...

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo descrever a epidemiologia dos casos de tuberculose bovina na América do Sul, visando enfatizar a importância das medidas de controle e prevenção da doença. Para esta pesquisa foi realizado um estudo transversal, descritivo, retrospectivo e qualiquantitativo que...

It is possible to distinguish on the surface of the land from homogeneous regions by their physical or human traits: the regional perspective plays a key role in the traditional rural world and facilitates knowledge and good administration. With the development of the modern economy, major cities ar...

The emergence of a so-called ‘parallel’ medicine market dates back to the early 1980s. Since then, it has grown steadily in the countries of the South. In addition to its major public health problem, it represents a method of recourse to care widely practised by the population. It is therefore impor...

The previsions say that the semiarid regions in the world are between the most impacted by the global climate change. In Brazil, among the environmental (lost of biodiversity, extreme droughts), social (migrations, diseases exposition) and economics (reduction on income generation, in employment rat...

through the reconstruction of the history and memory of the social uses of the San Pedro del Tingo Municipal Balneario, located in the Chillos Valley in the vicinity of the consolidated urban area of Quito, the work analyses the tensions and fluctuating relations between local government, social gro...

Over the past decade, scientific and policy circles throughout Europe have been debating about how to best create working landscapes that balance agricultural production and environmental conservation in an economically sustainable fashion. In this regard, multi-functional landscape strategies have...

Christiaensen, Luc; Heltberg, Rasmus. 2012. Greening China’s rural energy : New insights on the potential of smallholder biogas. World bank, Washington, DC. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/9318 Clean, safe energy for rural areas is an important component of green growth and sustaina...

Cutaneous mycobacterioses remains prevalent in West Africa, despite the existence of treatments due to problems linked to early diagnosis. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the improvement of their microbiological diagnosis. The results of the work of this thesis allow us to understand the...

International audience In order to estimate dispersion affecting rainfall measurements by raingauges, an experimental raingauge network was set up from January 1987 to August 1989. Five tipping bucket raingauges (a type commonly used in France) were installed in close proximity (a few meters apart)...

International audience Generation effects play a key role in shaping long-term trends in travel behaviors. Though cohorts born until the 1970s have been increasingly car-focused, a reversal of this trend was noticed among the millenials. Determining whether this break-in-trend resulted from changes...

This article analyses the development of rural fertility in Belgium between 1880 and 1939, questioning, on the one hand, the heterogeneity of behaviour and, on the other, the impact of major cyclical events — the First World War, the 1929 economic crisis and the emergence of totalitarian regimes — w...

International audience The peasant movement that emerged after the Second World War was one of the most important social mobilizations in Italy during the twentieth century. In a context where land inequalities and traditional mechanisms of exploitation persisted, rural social conflicts reappeared i...

The Youth Chantiers Group 11, based in Villard-de-Lans in the Vercors, is responsible for taking action on local youth by instilling them with the petainist discourse while commissioning them to carry out work of general interest in forests. Cluster 11 is becoming an important link between the vichy...

although the winegrowers are indeed ‘the person who cultivates the vine, make the wine’ according to the Petit Robert dictionary, it is a very brief definition for defining the profession of winegrowing in the 21th century and few winegrowers are defined solely by this technical and cultivation func...

Ferdinand III. inherited the Thirty Years' war from its father, Ferdinand II.. In the centre of his reign, the war ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia and thereby the long time of the confessional arguments going along with denomination questions. The Peace of Westphalia was at the same time...

the concept of ecological solidarity has been put forward to defend a new relationship between humans and non-human beings, reconsidering the dividing line between subjects and objects, which has formed the backbone of the modern legal order. By formulating ecological solidarity in the ideal form of...

This thesis examines the writing of Wei An苇岸 (1960-1999), a contemporary Chinese nature writer, from an eco-critical perspective grounded in deep ecological view. Urged on by China’s environmental crisis and social problems, and influenced by Western literature and his own life experience, Wei An de...

Venus of nearby campaigns, apparently pushed by the crises, the parents of the employees of the factories moved to Saint Privat. These crises are affecting a fully-fledged world, living in a precarious balance and ultimately undermining the foundations of the rural economy. Two solutions were then i...

[PT] Em este texto oferece-se uma introdução ao número especial sobre arqueologia contemporânea desde uma perspectiva ibérica. Põe-se a ênfase em dois temas comuns: a violência política e a transformação do mundo rural. O número entende-se como um convite ao diálogo e colaboração entre arqueólogos t...

in scientific literature on the archaeology of Roman and protobyzantine Syria-Palestine, it has become an agarming and unconstructive custom to complain about the state of our knowledge of the rural world and, in particular, of ancient agriculture. But is what was entirely permissible in the time of...

used recently, French historiography has hardly been involved in studying the social and political transformations of agricultural worlds in France of the first 20th century. The changes in rural societies that began in the nineteenth century remained a prime area of investigation, while sociologist...

In the aftermath of independence, the main objectives of agricultural and rural policies were to feed the population, create jobs to absorb surplus labor until industry took over, and improve living in rural areas. Later was added the goal of sustainability of agriculture and rural development. Half...