Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural was born in 1978, as an initiative of a group of researchers of the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, Colombia, South America, who proposed to the academic directives of the moment the creation of a print media that had as a purpose the spreading of the research results about the rural studies that were developing on our country. It was created with the name of Cuadernos de Agroindustria y Economía Rural which in the middle 90’s was change for Cuadernos de Desarrollo Rural, to reflect the improvement on the rural topics that were taking place on the University. Right know the group of researchers and the journal belongs to a new faculty that is called Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales.