The publication, edited by the doctor in Social Sciences, Julio Berdegué; the social anthropologist Constanza Christian; and the PhD in Environmental Sciences, Arilson Favareto; gathers the contribution of the Rural Territorial Development (RTD) approach – proposed in 2004 by Berdegué and Alexander Schejtman, which contemplates dynamics of productive transformation and institutional development – in the research and applied advocacy agenda of the last fifteen years in Latin America.