MOBILISING ASSETS IN RURAL AREAS

Natural resources and rural development

• A collaborative approach to creating value for a territory by Andres Moran, Public Affairs Manager, Antofagasta Mineral, Chile (PDF)
• From caretaker to enabler by Thom Stubbs, Headwater Group, Canada (PDF)
• Natural resources and rural development by Risto Poutiainen, Director, Regional development, Regional Council of North Karelia, Finland (PDF)
• Rural resources policy and forestry by Greg Halseth, Professor, University of Northern British Colombia, Canada (PDF)

 Food security - what role for rural policy?

• Territorial approach to food security: security and nutrition policies by Vito Cistuli, Senior Policy Officer, Department of Economic and Social Development, FAO (PDF)
• Food security - what role for rural policy? Colombian case by Maria Jose Uribe, Department for Social Prosperity, Colombia (PDF)
• Investing in food security by Christel Alvergne, Deputy Director, Local Dvelopment Finance Department, UNCDF (PDF)
• Keys to acheiving global food security by Phil Karsting, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA, United States (PDF)

Engaging with traditional settlements, native communities, and socially disadvantaged groups

• Native communities: bridging local initiatives and top-down programs - experiences from Mexico by Margarita Flores, University Program on Development Studies, UNAM, Mexico (PDF)
• Some thoughts on rural development and indigenous people by David Freshwater, Professor, Univeristy of Kentucky, United States (PDF)

PROMOTING EVIDENCE-BASED RURAL POLICIES

Telling the rural sotry: using data to inform policy 

• Rural-urban connections strategy: enhancing rural economic viablity and environmental sustainability by David Shabazian, Program Manager, Sacramento Area Council of Governments, United States
• A strategy for Italian inner areas by Teresa Capece Galeota, Public Officer, Italian Department for Development and Cohesion Policy, Italy
• Appalachian Regional Commission by Earl Gohl, Federal Co-chair, Appalachian Regional Commission, United States

Rural policies in Latin America

• Rural budget in Mexico by José Antonio Rojo, Federal Deputy for the Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico
• Agriculture in Latin America: its potential by Jaime de la Mora, Director, Consulting Group for Agricultural Markets, Mexico (PDF)
• Rural development with a territorial approach by Diego Mora, Political Scientist, Univerity of Los Andes, Colombia
• The missing half of the half-full glass by Julio a. Berdegué, Principal Researcher, Rimisp-Latin American Center for Rural Development

Land use in rural regions

• Use value assessment of rural land in the United States by John E. Anderson, University of Nebraska, United States and Richar W. England, Univerity of New Hampshire, United States
• Sustainable land use in rural regions by Salin Geevarghese, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International and Philanthropic Innovation, Department of Housing and Urban Development (UDG) United States
• Revitalising rural areas in Japan by Katsuhiko Yamauchi, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, Japan

PILLAR 1 - THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION

Creating jobs and econimic opportunities

• Economic growth in rural regions: SMEs, productivity and entrepreneurship by David Freshwater, Professor, University of Kentucky, United States
• A rural characterisation of Quebec's territory by Fédéric Laurin, Professor, Université de Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada
• A perspective on the characteristics of SMEs in Atlantic Canada by Alvins Simms, Harris Centre RANLab, St. John's NL, Canada
• Fuelling Canada's entrepreneurial development by Lori Ries and Diana Jedig, Community Futures Newtork, Canada
• Rural SME's and innovation in the United States by Tim Wojan, Economic Research, USDA, United States
• Rural leadership in SME's by Julian Pace and Julia Latto, Scottish Enterprise, United Kingdom

Linking rural and urban places 

• Rural and urban places ARE linked - it is governments that aren't by Julio A. Berdegué, RIMISP, United States
• Linking rural and urban in Poland - the case of intergrated territorial investments by Aleksandra Zakrzewska
• Korea's regional policy: linking urban and rural by Tae-Byung Kim, Director, Regional Policy Division, MLIT, Korea

PILLAR 2 - THE SOCIAL DIMENSION

Increasing citizen engagement and trust 

• Global shale energy development by Tom Murphy, Marcellus Center for OUtreach Research, United States
• Proximity policies by José Ramòn Sobròn, KaleidosRed, Spain
• Lessons from practice by John Grieve, Rural Development Company, Scotland
• Shaping our Appalachian Region (SOAR) Model by Chuck W. Fluharty, President and CEO, Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), United States
• Strategy of regional sustainable development in Mexico by Raúl Hernández Garciadiego, Mexico 

Improving access to services

• Examples from Finland by Christell Åstrom, Ministry of Employment and the Ecomony, Finland
• A strategy for Italian inner areas by Teresa Capece Galeota, Department for Choesion Policy - National Committee on Inner Areas, Italy

PILLAR 1 - THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION

Climate change: building resilience in rural areas

• The need for mainstraming the collboration of the agricultural policy system and the rural development policy system by Mikitaro Shobayashi, Gakushuin Women's College, Japan
• Climate change impacts in the United States by Willian Hohenstein, Director, USDA Climate Change Program, United States
• Building resilience in rural areas in Mexico by Jorge Galo Medina Torres, SCARPA, Mexico

Connecting the bio-economy to rural policy

• Making the bioeconomy work for rural development: some Noric experience by John Bryden, NILF, Norway
• Connecting the bioeconomy on rural policy by Risto Poutiainen, Director, Regional Devleopment, Regional Council of North Karelia, Finland
• An entrepreneur's perspective by Peter Nelson, AIDG, United States