Sustainable rural development seeks to respond to three basic needs to make a sustainable world possible in an integral manner, with an efficient use of resources: Improve the education and well-being of people, eradicating extreme poverty; Achieve sustainable agricultural production to ensure that all human beings have access to healthy food in the necessary quantities; and Protect, rationalize the use and conserve the capacity of the renewable and non-renewable natural resource base to continue providing production, environmental and cultural services, with the development of integral productive projects.

• COMPETITIVENESS AND PRODUCTIVITY
• AGROBIODIVERSITY
• CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
• BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
• TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY
• WILDLIFE AND AQUATIC DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTION
• WILDLIFE POPULATION ECOLOGY