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A Dreamer`s Guide to Reality

ADreamersGuideToRealityCoverThis is my first try on publishing an indie EBook. Thanks to the Smashwords platform that helped meĀ on getting it to all major EBook retailers. Even if it`s free :).

Here is the link where you can find it in different formats (.epub, .mobi, PDF and many others):

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/492480

I hope you enjoy it and here`s a little summary to get you started.

“A dreamer`s guide to reality is the first part of a short stories collection that is focused on the break between reality and fiction in the mind of a young person. Built as a mesmerizing mix of real life action, character memories and dreams, it shows the readers that the simplest way for the mind to defend itself is by sheltering itself inside it, building up, at the same time, a defense wall that not even the person can overpass. But wait, there’s more!

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What is food insecurity? An explanation

Have you ever wondered why more than 850 million people around the world go to bed at night starving?

Have you ever wondered how is it to work for food, not to make your life better?

To answer questions like these, we first must find out what is Food (In)Security.

More on: hungryworld.trust.org
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Script/Voice: Alex Whiting
Animation: Amelia Wong
Music: archive.org

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Academia #7: Developing a Global Agricultural Policy

I wrote this article during my postdoc research at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech in Belgium. It tells people why a global policy should be developed to ensure food security and why this policy will never become reality.

The full article is available on Academia.edu HERE. Enjoy your reading!

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Academia #6: The image of the rural entrepreneur

The image of the person willing to start aĀ business in the rural environment appears idealistic, the rural entrepreneur beingĀ considered ā€œindependent, capable of taking chances, results-oriented, optimistic,Ā confident in their powers, hardworking and innovativeā€. Also, it wasĀ noted that rural entrepreneurship should be clearly focused on creating new workplacesĀ by implementing investments in rural communities.

Courtesy of ISBE UK
Courtesy of ISBE UK

In essence, rural entrepreneurship represents that type of entrepreneurship thatĀ is able to offer added value to all type of rural resources (natural, material, financial,human) in rural areas rendering in this process mainly rural-based human resources.

READ MORE HERE…

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Academia #5: Better SWOT analyses

Local development strategies have long been a reason for argument because they are developed through outdated methods and procedures that might not show the present situation.

The realization and implementation of the local development strategy in anĀ organized and continuous manner, based on a well realized model, can lead, in aĀ time horizon of 10 years to a rural space development that can be quantifiedĀ through removing development disparities. READ MORE HERE