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Rural development

Here are entered works on the basic development of rural regions in either underdeveloped countries or in deprived areas of more advanced countries, emphasizing improvements in the standard of living and the active participation of the local populations in the programs set up.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Agriculture and state
• Community development
• Economic development
• Regional planning

• Rural development -- Africa
• Rural development -- Asia
• Rural development -- Brazil
• Rural development -- Canada
• Rural development -- China
• Rural development -- Colombia
• Rural development -- Congresses
• Rural development -- Ecuador
• Rural development -- Environmental aspects
• Rural development -- Finance
• Rural development -- India
• Rural development -- Kenya
• Rural development -- Latin America
• Rural development -- Nepal
• Rural development -- Oman
• Rural development -- Paraguay
• Rural development -- Periodicals
• Rural development -- Philippines
• Rural development -- Southeast Asia
• Rural development -- Sudan
• Rural development -- Thailand
• Rural development -- Thailand, Northern
• Rural development -- United Arab Emirates
• Rural development -- United States
• Rural development -- Vietnam
• Communication in rural development
• Radio in rural development

• Community development, Rural
• Development, Rural
• Integrated rural development
• Regional development
• Rehabilitation, Rural
• Rural community development
• Rural development -- Citizen participation
• Rural development -- Social aspects
• Rural economic development

• Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London et al.: Longman, c1983), by Robert Chambers (PDF at Institute of Development Studies)

• Journal of Social Development in Africa (partial serial archives)

• Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Jean C. Oi (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c2014), by Russell Harwood (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Biodiesel in India: Value Chain Organisation and Policy Options For Rural Development (2009), by Tilman Altenburg, Hildegard Dietz, Matthias Hahl, Nikos Nikolidakis, Christina Rosendahl, and Kathrin Seelige (PDF in Germany)

• Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (partial serial archives)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (HTML at UNU Press)

• Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines, by Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU Press)

• Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand (Honolulu: Pub. for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, ca. 1978), ed. by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabhasri (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Conservation and Development in Northern Thailand, ed. by Jack D. Ives, Sanga Sbhasri, and Pisit Voraurai (HTML at UNU Press)

• Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of Doi Moi, ed. by Peter Boothroyd and Pham Xuan Nam (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences from Rural Latin America (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2017), ed. by Marcela Vásquez-León, Brian J. Burke, and Timothy J. Finan, trans. by Maisa C. Taha (page images with commentary at Arizona)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)

• Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences from Rural Latin America (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2017), ed. by Marcela Vásquez-León, Brian J. Burke, and Timothy J. Finan, trans. by Maisa C. Taha (page images with commentary at Arizona)

• Finance for Food: Towards New Agricultural and Rural Finance (Heidelberg et al.: Springer Open, c2014), ed. by Doris Köhn (PDF files at SpringerLink)

• The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Sarah Hamilton (page images at Pitt)

• Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas (c2013), ed. by Holger L. Frölich, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Karl Stahr, and Gerhard Clemens (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• African Successes: Four Public Managers of Kenyan Rural Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David K. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (page images at Pitt)

• Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1999), ed. by Francisco J. Pichón, Jorge E. Uquillas, and John Frechione (page images at Pitt)

• Cooperatives, Grassroots Development, and Social Change: Experiences from Rural Latin America (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2017), ed. by Marcela Vásquez-León, Brian J. Burke, and Timothy J. Finan, trans. by Maisa C. Taha (page images with commentary at Arizona)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Spore: Bimonthly Bulletin of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information (partial serial archives)

• Rural Development in White Nile Province, Sudan, ed. by H. R. J. Davies (HTML at UNU Press)

• Natural Resources and Rural Development in Arid Lands: Case Studies from Sudan, ed. by H. R. J. Davies (HTML at UNU Press)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (HTML at UNU Press)

• The Feasibility and Value of Broadband Communications in Rural Areas: A Preliminary Evaluation (1976), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by William Mills, Gretchen Kolsrud, and Lucia Turnbull (PDF files at Princeton)

• Funding and Implementing Universal Access: Innovation and Experience from Uganda (c2005), by Uganda Communications Commission (PDF with commentary at Fountain Publishers)

• A Passion for Radio: Radio Waves and Community (electronic edition, c2001), ed. by Bruce Girard (PDF at comunica.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• African Agriculture: The Critical Choices (c1990), ed. by Hamid Ait Amara and Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua (HTML at UNU Press)

• Land Policy and Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by J. W. Arntzen, L. D. Ngcongco, and S. D. Turner (HTML at UNU Press)

• Land Policy and Agriculture in Eastern and Southern Africa, ed. by J. W. Arntzen, L. D. Ngcongco, and S. D. Turner (HTML at UNU Press)

• Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, c1991), ed. by Christina H. Gladwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, c1991), ed. by Christina H. Gladwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agriculture and Food Security in China: What Effect WTO Accession and Regional Trade Arrangements? (Canberra: ANU E Press, 2008), ed. by Chunlai Chen and Ronald C. Duncan (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• The Spiral Down to Poverty: Rural Communities in Crisis (ACSJC occasional paper #15; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1993), by Noela Lippert (PDF in Australia)

• Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies (partial serial archives)

• Proceedings, American Association for Agricultural Legislation, December 29-31, 1919 (bulletin #6; 1920), by American Association for Agricultural Legislation (page images at Cornell)

• Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2023), by Rashed A. M. Titumir (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development (Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute, c2009), ed. by David J. Spielman and Rajul Pandya-Lorch (PDF with commentary at ifpri.org)

• Tenants of the Almighty (New York: Macmillan, 1943), by Arthur Franklin Raper, illust. by Jack Delano (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Board of Agriculture for Ireland, by William Field (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1998), by Stephen K. Wegren (page images at Pitt)

• Challenges for U.S. Agricultural Research Policy (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Agricultural Policy, Technology Adoption, and Farm Structure (USDA Staff Report AGES880810; 1988), by Lloyd D. Teigen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Farm Problem (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1986), ed. by Paul L. Poirot (PDF with commentary at fee.org)
• Perspectives on 21st Century Agriculture: A Tribute to Walter J. Armbruster (Oak Brook, IL: Farm Foundation, c2007), ed. by Ronald D. Knutson, Sharron D. Knutson, and David P. Ernstes (PDF at AgEcon Search)
• Impacts of Technology on U.S. Cropland and Rangeland Productivity (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Storage and Stability: A Modern Ever-Normal Granary (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1937), by Benjamin Graham, contrib. by Alvin Saunders Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Labor Management in Agriculture (second edition, 2003), by Gregory Encina Billikopf (PDF files with commentary at Berkeley)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.