Finally, farmers rights need to be protected, the efficiency of land use must be increased, and policies for acquisition of rural land for urban use should be overhauled.

Incentive frameworks linking conservation with productivity and income in rural areas should be systematically developed and target local entrepreneurs.

The purpose of the Rural Development Foundation is to help agricultural producers and other enterprises in rural areas by granting them additional securities to obtain loans from credit institutions for developing economic activities and purchasing of land.

Unemployment in rural areas

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela had been declared an illiteracy free territory by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), following literacy campaigns with wide national coverage.

Returns from land use projects, for example, could also include the potential to create more sustainable rural livelihoods, enable higher and more resilient agricultural yields, and generate rural employment.

Among the reforms will be tax policies aimed at boosting rural purchasing power, measures to broaden rural land ownership, and technology led programs to raise agricultural productivity.

Food safety in rural areas Agro processing Information exchange soils, climate and conservation agriculture.

Rural Health Centers obviously are more concentrated in rural areas (378 with 5636 beds in rural areas compared to 135 with 2250 beds in urban areas).

Consequently, Africa s rural population has been growing faster and for longer than any other in human history, with a correspondingly rapid and prolonged decline in per capita endowments of land and other natural resources.

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This is more so the case in rural areas.

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

Of these, 248,964 (99.4 ) lived in urban areas and 1,384 (0.6 ) in rural areas.

The incidence of poverty is higher in rural than in urban areas (54 per cent of rural and 30 per cent of urban households can be classified as poor).

TB centers in urban areas outnumber those in rural areas.

He used some of his vast wealth to shower money on rural areas. Rural people, grateful for his largesse, voted for him twice.

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Of these, 1,952 (81.6 ) lived in urban areas and 440 (18.4 ) in rural areas.

Migration increases remittances to rural areas and strengthens market linkages between rural and urban areas.

62 136. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

58 146. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

60 138. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

56 129. Improvement of the situation of women in rural areas

Food often remains unavailable in rural areas.

There is a wide income disparity between the rural and urban regions.

Around 85 of the population live in rural areas.

This was especially widespread in rural areas.

Most of these credits were provided for women in the rural areas.

Women in rural areas have associations which provide information and training.

Combining work and care in rural areas

Table 3.4 Urban unemployment and working time in rural areas in 2001 ( )

The sex ratio was 106 in rural areas, compared to 91 in urban areas.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

Although more women than men lived in rural areas and 54 per cent of the women were engaged in agriculture, they apparently did not own land.

Telephones are much more accessible in urban areas, with less than a quarter of land lines being in rural areas.

Green represents the agriculture and rural areas of Zimbabwe.

This helps improve women's life in rural areas.

The country's population is predominantly agricultural or rural.

There has also been a reduction in rural areas, but to a lesser degree.

Unemployment and non activity have become acute problems in rural areas.

It will be compulsory for new medical graduates to serve in rural areas.

They impeded productive activities, particularly in rural areas.

Stresses also the importance of fighting hunger in rural areas, including through national efforts supported by international partnerships to stop desertification and land degradation and through investments and public policies that are specifically appropriate to the risk of drylands and in this regard, calls for the full implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

Fifth, increased investment in rural areas, provided for in the government s rescue plan, will help narrow the gap between urban rich and rural poor.