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Rural development
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- Note: This article provides definition of Rural development. See Rural Development for Rural Development Agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA RD).
Rural development in general is used to denote the actions and initiatives taken to improve the standard of living in non-Urban neighbourhoods, countryside, and remote villages. These communities can be exemplified with a low ratio of inhabitants to open space. Agricultural activities may be prominent in this case whereas economic activities would relate to the primary sector, production of foodstuffs and raw materials.
Rural development actions mostly aim at the social and economic development of the areas. These programmes are usually top-down from the local or regional authorities, regional development agencies, NGOs, national governments or international development organizations. But then, local populations can also bring about endogenous initiatives for development. The term is not limited to the issues for developing countries. In fact many of the developed countries have very active rural development programmes.
- Rural Development (RD) agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA RD)
- Rural Development Council (RDC) of Northern Ireland
- England Rural Development Programme by DEFRA
- Rural Development programmes in Pakistan
- The George Foundation, India
- Rural
- Comilla Project, the first comprehensive rural development project in developing countries.
- International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
- Regional development
- CNN - For Rural Women, Land Means Hope, The George Foundation