Introduction
Editor SJRD
A little over a year that a group of colleagues, or better, “adventurous” we launched a project as uncertain and, in principle complicated, as is the launch of a new scientific journal. Thank God, here we, with the publication of the number “2” of Spanish Journal of Rural Development (SJRD). All this, despite the “elements” and said Felipe II as well as what happened to Don Quixote when he saw windmills and said to his squire: “Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we could to desire, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or so monstrous giants with whom I do battle, and take away all their lives, with whose spoils we shall begin to enrich, that this is righteous warfare, and is a great service of God to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth”.
Therefore, on behalf of the Editorial Board, is an honour for me to present a new number of the journal, which, of course, it will not be the last. And, he says, a good Castilian proverb that my father taught me, “well born is to be grateful”, therefore, first of all, I want to thank the institutions and individuals who have made that this project exciting continue. In this year, we have published the number “0”, thanks to financial support from the Spanish Association of Agroingeniería, the number “1” where we have the support of the Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, the institution has also collaborated in the current issue. If we talk about people, of course all members of the Editorial Board and Scientific Committee, as well as others who have been there, if regrettable, his name does not appear anywhere, as they have been Lucía Rego Vázquez and Eva Barcala Pérez. I left for the end to a great friend Oscar García, author of the prologue to this issue.
I do not want to say too much, only saying that the “future is ours”, the phrase is from my friend Carlos, in fact we are already working in a special issue of the journal, dedicated to the III International Conference of Yew, held in Ponferrada in the last March, and we signed an agreement with the Organizing Committee of the IV Iberian Congress of Soil Science to be celebrated next September in Granada, to publish another special issue.
Finally, to reiterate once again that SJRD is a journal that was born without limitations, with an idea of the future potential and the claim of being a vehicle of exchange for the international scientific community, being our main goal, take part in the future, hopefully this is not too distant, in the database Journal Citation Reports (JCR).