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Revisiting agricultural modernisation: Interconnected farming practices driving rural development at the farm level

Journal of Rural Studies, 2019
Rural development related to agriculture can roughly be divided into two trajectories: 1) agri-industrial development or modernisation, and 2) multifunctional or even post-productivist rural development. The role of these trajectories varies in different
Suvi Huttunen
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Upgrading for whom? Relationship coffee, value chain interventions and rural development in Indonesia

World Development, 2018
Value chain upgrading interventions have emerged in recent years as a dominant approach to rural development. In coffee value chains, upgrading opportunities are presented by the growth in consumption of specialty coffees, which are associated with ...
M. Vicol, J. Neilson, D. Hartatri, P. Cooper   +3 more
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Rural Development and Rural Change

1978
A whole chapter of rural planning failures in Africa and the faltering progress of the Green Revolution in South-east Asia draw attention to the fact that in general the treatment of rural development problems in less-developed countries has been at best heavy handed and at worst grossly inept.
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Rural Electrification and Rural Development

2012
Recent interest in rural electrification has emphasised the importance of linking its development with productive uses for energy and poverty reduction. This has been viewed as necessary to increase the pace of rural electrification and reduce its concentration on a relatively small number of developing countries.
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Infrastructure and rural development: Household perceptions on rural development

Progress in Planning, 2008
Abstract This paper proposes a household model that relates various development interventions, such as infrastructure, to rural development. The model is then estimated using data from a household survey in which rural development outcomes are measured in terms of a perception scale.
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Rural Tourism and Rural Development

1992
There is a renewed degree of interest in rural development. Despite this interest, and some positive action at various levels, there is little by way of a successful blueprint for rural development. As one reviewer of research (in Europe) has stated “durable generalisations (about rural development) are scarce” (Whitby, 1986).
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Multifunctional rural development in China: Pattern, process and mechanism

Habitat International, 2022
H. Long, Li Ma, Yingnan Zhang, Lulu Qu
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Does rural development aid reduce international migration?

World Development, 2018
In recent years, interest has emerged in policy circles and among academics about the use of foreign aid to reduce international migration. Scholars have investigated this aid-migration nexus, but results have been mixed and questions remain.
Jonas Gamso, F. Yuldashev
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Rural development

1997
This rural sector strategy outlines the steps the Bank and its partners must take to spur rural development. Key elements of the strategy include (a) taking a broad rural focus, as opposed to a narrow agricultural sector focus, (b) involving the entire World Bank Group in promoting rural development, (c) working with partner countries and the broader ...
Alex F. McCalla, Wendy S. Ayres
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Urbanization, rural development and environmental health in China

Environmental Development, 2018
For a long time, priority has been given to urban development at the expense of agriculture and the rural economy, so widening the gap between urban and rural areas in China.
Jingjing Yuan, Yonglong Lu, R. Ferrier, Zhaoyang Liu, Hongqiao Su, Jing Meng, Shuai Song, A. Jenkins   +7 more
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