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Le caractère « plurilocal » des systèmes de subsistance ruraux est nettement plus prononcé qu'on ne le pense souvent, de nombreuses personnes du milieu rural passant une partie de l'année hors de leur village dans des emplois non agricoles.
La relation entre la ville et les zones rurales s'est radicalement transformée au cours des dernières années.
Pour la première fois dans l'histoire du développement rural, il est possible de créer une infrastructure qui réduit de façon significative l'isolement de ceux qui vivent en milieu rural. Les TIC peuvent accélérer les échanges de connaissances entre centres urbains et communautés rurales.
Les chaînes de valorisation de l'agriculture assurent le lien entre la consommation urbaine et la production rurale. La transformation de la demande, qui est une conséquence de l'urbanisation, l'émergence de types de consommation « modernes » ou de nouvelles tendances du commerce
Interest in the notion of «state failure» has seen a dramatic upsurge in recent years. As a rule, changes in global framework conditions are held responsible for this decrease in state control and legitimacy.
Rural livelihoods are far more multi-locational than is often assumed with many rural people spending a part of the year outside the village working in non-farm occupations.
If legal instruments are not fully implemented, there is a risk they remain in the domain of virtual reality and wishful thinking.The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has come a long way since it came into force in 1996, with current membership standing at 191 Parties.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment projects that the intensification of freshwater scarcity in combination with continuous water extraction from delicate dryland ecosystems is likely to exacerbate desertification, thus leading to a downward spiral of ecological deterioration and a precarious dep
Desertification is nowhere more serious than in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), stretching from Pakistan in the east to Morocco in the west, and from Ethiopia and Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north. Yet, many MENA countries have successfully rehabilitated large areas.