Active transformative pathways for local agri-food systems : drawing and applying an integrated framework to assess agri-food systems vulnerability under the political paradigm of food sovereignty in Ecuadorian Andes 

    Vallejo-Rojas, Virginia (Date of defense: 2016-09-15)

    Taking into account the limitations of official approaches for addressing agri-food research, as well as their associated policies to tackle the problems of hunger and vulnerability of agri-food systems to global change, ...

    Can social capital help Indian smallholder farmers? Analysis of its impact on rural development, agricultural efficiency, production and risk 

    Poli, Elena (Date of defense: 2016-04-26)

    This research project intends to investigate empirically the potentials of Social Capital to act as a mechanism to improve the performance of India's small-holder agriculture. The study employs both a qualitative and ...

    Conocimiento y percepción ambiental sostenible en la arquitectura del desarrollo de la agroindustria : casos de estudio Argentina y Paraguay 

    Landeros Suárez, Arturo (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    To analyse the current situation of the Latin American subcontinent is to speak of a process of repression, as explained by Alberto Acosta when referring to the evil of abundance: countries rich in natural resources, whose ...

    Instrumentos de gestión integral de la red viaria y el patrimonio territorial desde la accesibilidad para un desarrollo local y turístico 

    Clavera Ibáñez, Glòria (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)

    The road network service for mobility should respond to the challenges of sustainability and the new way of understanding the territory from a systemic, historical and topological perspective. In order to accomplish this ...

    The productive efficiency in agriculture: recent methodological advances 

    Guesmi, Bouali (Date of defense: 2014-01-23)

    Firm-level productivity and efficiency analyses have important implications for the evaluation of their economic viability and sustainability. The assessment of a firm's performance requires the use of an adequate ...