Rural community development encompasses a range of approaches and activities that aim to improve the welfare and livelihoods of people living in rural...

people within their communities, whether these be of locality, identity or interest, in urban and rural settings". Community development seeks to empower...

The need for rural communities to approach development from a wider perspective has created more focus on a broad range of development goals rather than...

Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology for the sustainable development of communities based on their strengths and potentials. It involves...

a subdivision of a district, exclusively for rural development. The concept of the community development block was first suggested by Grow More Food (GMF)...

Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), to administer FmHA community and business programs and other USDA rural development programs...

The Minister for Rural and Community Development (Irish: An tAire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail) is a senior minister in the Government of Ireland and...

design statement Rural community development Rural Development Council ACRE Cheshire Community Action Countryside Agency DEFRA Rural Community Council of Essex...

Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India, is entrusted with the task of accelerating the socio-economic development of rural India...

involved and empowered local population is essential to successful rural community development. Robert Chambers, a key exponent of PRA, argued that the approach...

Since independence, several rural development and extension education programs have been implemented in Nigeria. In Nigeria, several subsequent governments...

economics which focus more on food systems. Rural development and finance attempt to solve larger challenges within rural economics. These economic issues are...

The community-led local development (CLLD) funding approach is a European Union initiative to support the decentralised management of development projects...

Community economic development (CED) is a field of study that actively elicits community involvement when working with government and private sectors to...

Common land Communalism Community land trust Community supported fishery Community wealth building Community gardening Development-supported agriculture...

Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban...

The Department of Rural and Community Development (Irish: An Roinn Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail) is a department of the Government of Ireland. It is...

and seasonal events are prominent in rural areas. These tourism activities contribute to rural community development and provide economic benefits, including...

concentrated on community development through village development programmes that included agriculture, fisheries, cooperatives, rural crafts, adult literacy...

The Ministry of Livestock and Rural Community Development was a cabinet ministry in the Government of Sri Lanka. Parties   Sri Lanka Freedom Party   United...

live in rural areas according to the Food and Agricultural Organization. Some communities have successfully encouraged economic development in rural areas...

Community-driven development (CDD) is an initiative in the field of development that provides control of the development process, resources and decision...

England Rural Development Programme was the instrument by which the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) fulfilled its rural development...

of Community Development (OCD) is a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development activities. OCD operates community development programs...

Community Education, also known as Community-Based Education or Community Learning & Development, or Development Education is an organization's programs...

Government of Malaysia that is responsible for rural development, regional development, community development, Bumiputera, Orang Asli, rubber industry smallholders...

identities, rural health-care, and educational policies. Many rural sociologists work in the areas of development studies, community studies, community development...

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. The SADC's goal is to further...

Community Driven Local Development (CDLD) is a budgetary support programme meant to bring social and structural improvements in Thirteen districts of Khyber...

number of different types of rural communities, which have arisen as a result of changing economic trends within rural regions of industrial nations...