scholarly journals Innovation in Basilicata agriculture: From tradition to digital

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Maria Assunta D’Oronzio ◽  
Carmela Sica
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Systems Software ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Training Institutions ◽  
Maximum Expression ◽  
Made In ◽  
Rural Development Policies

The 4.0 technologies are changing agricultural production processes and with them the agro-food supply chains, fundamental for the competitiveness of the Made in Italy and Basilicata, a region of southern Italy. It has invested in modernization and restructuring of agricultural, agri-food and forestry farms by rural development policies, which address respect for sustainability and to reduction of renewable and non-renewable resources, preserving quality and the link with the territory.   Some Lucanian agricultural entrepreneurs, interested in experimenting with innovative and sustainable agriculture, has intensified relations with the local scientific world, the advisors, training institutions and with small and medium-sized agro-industrial enterprises, setting up clusters. Then European Partnerships for Innovation have formed inside them.   This paper analyses the eleven Operational Groups of the Lucanian European Partnerships which represent the incubators for the digitalization of agri-food 4.0. From the analysis it emerged that the maximum expression of digitization in Basilicata is Precision Farming, as evidenced by the establishment of a specific operating group, AgrotechBasilicata. However, the other Lucanian OGs can also be classified as digital because they are interested by information collection systems, software and data analysis, as well as robotics and automation.

scholarly journals Implementation Issues in Rural Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries: Problems and Prospects

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-119
Author(s):  
VA Okosun ◽  
JO Ezomo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Modernization Theory ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Rural Development Policies

It is a credo amongst scholars cum academics all over the globe that well coordinated and elaborate programmes and policies of rural development mounted by the third world countries in sub-Saharan Africa will lift her entire citizenry from manacle of gross underdevelopment to a region of  development in all facets of their economies. The countries in sub-Saharan African have spent trillions of dollars in rural development sector but an overview of the economies of these countries show that the vast population are marooned and encapsulated in gross poverty, ignorance, and  underdevelopment. The reason is attributable to poor implementation of rural development policies and programmes coupled with a host of  variegated factors. This paper therefore defines the concept of  implementation and rural development. The authors of this paper adopt the modernization theory to explicate the work. It discusses the significance of rural development to the economies of Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper also explains how poor implementation of rural  development programmes affects these countries. Moreover, it  orchestrates the factors/problems that impede rural development drives of various governments in Sub-Saharan African. Furthermore, it elucidates on the prospects of rural development. The paper finally suggests that an effective implementation of rural development programmes in all  ramifications is the only vehicle for rapid growth and economic  development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scholarly journals The Territorial Policy of Rural Development in Brazil: Questions and Reflections about the Reconnection between production and Consumption of Food

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (84) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanise Dias Freitas ◽  
Anelise Graciele Rambo
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Short Circuits ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
Rural Development Policies

Short marketing circuits and territorial rural development policies emphasize the importance of the reconnection between food production and consumption, with repercussions on the food security and sovereignty of local populations. For this, we analyzed official documents of the Program for the Sustainable Development of Rural Territories, the Citizenship Territories Program, the Territorial Development Plans, as well as field research on projects carried out in three rural territories and citizenship in the South of Brazil. From this analysis, it is possible to think of the strengthening of short circuits as the mechanism to promote rural territorial development.

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