Rural and agricultural development

Rural development and agriculture

Kerala Rural Development Agency

Rural Development Foundation of Pakistan

The Government has taken special measures to train highly skilled specialists for rural areas from among rural women.

However, due to low level of development in rural areas, practical measures have been taken by relevant agencies to ensure the effectiveness of this policy.

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

Viable and integrated development of rural areas

Programme for the Development of Rural Areas

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

Measures that promote general economic growth in rural areas should benefit forest related enterprises, for example through access to credit, infrastructure development and improved access to markets.

It also offered medium term measures such as infrastructure and rural finance.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

United Nations Public Private Alliance for Rural Development

Goal 1 Poverty Eradication Rural Development Engage and empower people living in poverty and rural areas.

The UNDP programme for rural and economic development involved investments of some 5 million in new projects for land reclamation and integrated rural development.

There were also calls for microfinance and rural development schemes to empower the poor, as well as for policy measures to improve access to education, water and health services.

Programme Component E.2 Rural and Women's Entrepreneurship Development

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is also initiating a participatory rural energy development programme, to identify and develop potential alternative energy resources in rural communities.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women, including indigenous women, in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

For Bangladesh, the Asian Development Bank approved seven loans for five projects totalling US 249.5 million, which included trade facilitation measures, including those at the Chittagong Port, and rural telecommunications.

The measures are considered to have contributed to creation of jobs in rural areas.

She wondered what specific measures were being taken to alleviate the plight of rural women, which ministry was responsible for rural communities, what were the budgetary allocations for rural communities, and to what extent were rural women given priority.

All the sugar factories are located in rural India. This has led to the tremendous development of rural areas.

Rural Development (Laos) total village development managing and monitoring weaving materials bank and cattle bank.

Port Vila Women's Business Unit, Department of Cooperatives Rural Development.

The priority tasks in rural development are complex and multifaceted.

A budget expenditure of Rs 34.15 billion was earmarked for rural development activities exclusively for irrigation (Rs 25.19 billion), land reclamation (Rs 1.77 billion) rural development (Rs 6.19 billion) and rural electrification (Rs 1 billion) during 2003 04.

Investment in agricultural and rural development is therefore vital to food security and sustainable economic development.

Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development

Also recognizes that the eradication of rural poverty and hunger is crucial for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies

Also recognizes that the eradication of rural poverty and hunger is crucial for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies

States parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on the basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right

States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right

This low availability of energy, especially in rural communities, both curbs the development of rural activities and aggravates the desertification process.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

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.

Agriculture was the backbone of Ethiopia's economy, and its development strategy centred on rural and agricultural development.

37. Also recognizes that the eradication of rural poverty and hunger is crucial for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that rural development should be an integral part of national and international development policies

Potential for rural development In relation to rural development, the simplicity and low relative cost of micro hydro systems open up new opportunities for some isolated communities in need of electricity.