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This manual develops a harmonised methodology to facilitate international statistical comparisons and to classify the entire territory of a country along an urban-rural continuum. The degree of urbanisation classification defines cities, towns and semi-dense areas, and rural areas. This first level of the classification may be complemented by a range [...]
The 2004 publication of Rural Territorial Development, by Alexander Schejtman and Julio Berdegué provided an analytical framework to think about rural development and thus contribute to a vast agenda of research and impact throughout Latin America. In their proposal they emphasize two factors to achieve rural development processes: productive transformation [...]
This report summarizes the main findings of the International Workshop “Integrated territorial and landscape approaches for poverty reduction and sustainability: Innovation and challenges from country led implementation” held in Rome from the 10th to the 12th of December 2019.
The project supported the participating countries (Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Lebanon and [...]
"In the face of megatrends such as globalisation, climate and demographic change, digitalisation and urbanisation, many cities and regions are grappling with critical challenges to preserve social inclusion, foster economic growth and transition to the low carbon economy. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the global agenda for the [...]
Since COVID-19 knows no borders and given the mobility of people that will be very difficult in some places to halt, there must be an integrated urban and rural approach to the COVID-19 response. This integrated approach is what the guiding principles and framework for action of the URL-GP were [...]