Rural Development Abstracts

• • - cooperatives
  • - farming systems
  - land ownership
• - land reform
• • - tenure

• • - agricultural extension services
  • - diffusion of information and pilot/demonstration farms
  • • • • - higher education and training in agriculture and vocational training
      - indigenous knowledge
    - innovation adoption
  • - literacy programmes
• - national and regional agricultural and rural research policy and planning
• • - participatory extension
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• - female and migrant labour
• • - income distribution
  • - labour market
• • • - poverty alleviation
    - social security
• • - trends in income
• • - wages and remuneration
  • • - working conditions
      

• • • - famine
    - food aid
  - food policy
• - food security
• - hunger and nutritional studies
• • - theoretical and country models

• - demography
• • - grassroots organizations
  - fertility and mortality
• - participation
• • - refugees
  • - rural/urban relations and migration
  - self help
• • • - social anthropology (e.g. social structure; leadership; social aspects of villages, ethnic groups, peasantry; social conditions; marriage and families)
    - social cultural and political issues
  • - social development theory
  • • - sociology and social policy of rural areas
  - state of the subject
• - women's studies
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• • • • - bilateral and multilateral aid and organizations
      - disease control and prevention
    - child care
  - communication (telecommunication, mass media etc.)
• • • • - emergency relief and food aid
      - family planning
    - government issues (decentralization, panchayats etc.)
  - health care
• - health services
• • - hygiene and sanitation
  • - impact of hunger and famine
  - medical services
• • - NGOs
  - nutritional state and surveys of the rural population

• - handicrafts
• - manufacturing
• - service sector
• - tourism development

• • - energy (rural electrification, solar energy, cooking stoves; biomass etc.))
  • - development studies
  • - models
  - regional development and planning
• - rural development policy
• - rural economy
• - rural services
• - rural infrastructure (including settlement and colonization; resettlement; rural housing; rural transport services (roads, rail and waterways)
• - theory
• - surveys and methodology

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