Abstract:
The purpose of the present paper is to highlight a stringent issue for Romania, namely the need to find viable and far-reaching solutions and implement them for the sustainable development of rural areas. The paper used several bibliographical sources, trying to make a synthesis of the information obtained and a more or less theoretical analysis of sustainable rural development problems. The unequivocal conclusion of this paper is that sustainable rural development in Romania has been and remains a topical issue, still unsolved.