From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rural development
Rural development
Note: This article provides definition of Rural • Rural Development Council (RDC) of Northern
development. See USDA Rural Development for Rural Ireland
Development Agency of the United States Department of • England Rural Development Programme by DEFRA
Agriculture (USDA RD). • Rural Development programmes in Pakistan
• The George Foundation, India
Rural development in general denotes economic devel- • Agricultural Development & Training Society, India
opment and community development actions and initia- • Village Earth: The Consortium for Sustainable
tives taken to improve the standard of living in non-ur- Village-based Development
ban neighbourhoods, remote villages and the country- • Tipperary Institute, Ireland
side. Economic activities typically relate to the primary • AsgiSA Eastern Cape, a South African rural
sector production and processing of food stuffs and raw development agency
materials. • Azerbaijan Rural Investment Project in Azerbaijan
Development actions Recognition
Rural development actions mostly aim at the social and
economic development of the areas. In Europe, rural de- Jindal Prize
velopment actions also integrate environmental man- Sitaram Jindal Foundation, India has instituted an award
agement as a core component. Rural development pro- Jindal Prize in which Rural Development and Poverty
grams are usually top-down from the local or regional Alleviation is one of the category out of five categories.
authorities, regional development agencies, NGOs, na- Prize will be awarded to those individuals or organisa-
tional governments or international development orga- tions rendering significant service to rural development
nizations. But then, local populations can also bring and poverty alleviation without any profit motive. Prizes
about endogenous initiatives for development. The term of Rs. one crore in each category will be awarded annual-
is not limited to the issues for developing countries. In ly.
fact many of the developed countries have very active
rural development programs.The main aim of the rural
government policy is to develop the undeveloped vil- See also
lages. • Rural
Rural development aims at finding the ways to im- • C@R, Collaboration at Rural is a collaborative
prove the rural lives with participation of the rural peo- platform for working and living in rural Areas. This
ple themselves so as to meet the required need of the project is co-funded by European Commission. C@R,
rural area. The outsider may not understand the setting, • Comilla Project, the first comprehensive rural
culture, language and other things prevalent in the local development project in developing countries.
area. As such, general people themselves have to partic- • District Rural Development Agencies (India)
ipate in their sustainable rural development. In develop- • International Fund for Agricultural Development
ing countries like Nepal, India, integrated development (IFAD)
approaches are being followed up. In the context of many • Regional development
approaches and ideas have been developed and followed • Tamil Nadu Rural Development Department.[1]
up, for instance, Bottom-up approach, PRA- Participatory • RIGA Project
Rural Appraisal, RRA- Rapid Rural Appraisal etc.
External links
Rural development agencies • Transforming the Rural Nonfarm Economy:
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Opportunities and Threats in the Developing World
Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) Agricultural and rural Edited by Steven Haggblade, Peter B. R. Hazell, and
information provider Thomas Reardon (2007), Johns Hopkins University
• Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Press
Department of Agriculture (USDA RD) • CNN - For Rural Women, Land Means Hope, The
• European Network for Rural Development George Foundation
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rural development
• Research on Agriculture and Rural Development graduate studies in Natural resource mgm and rural
from the Overseas Development Institute development, and works closely together with the
• Training for Rural Development: Agriculture and Swedish Network for Rural Development.
Enterprise Skills for Women Smallholders (http://www.sol.slu.se/indexe.asp)
• IITM’s Rural Technology and Business Incubator - [2] • European Network for Rural Development
• , Department for Urban and Rural Studies, Uppsala,
Sweden. Provides research, graduate and post-
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