Due to the ever-increasing role the LEADER approach is playing in realizing rural development policy, Local Action Groups (LAGs) have become key actors in the institutional system of rural development. Through their activity in supporting and improving local development, they represent a spatial organizing force in rural regions. Their operation can effectively contribute to the competitive and...

billing—Exploring Policy Options for a New Rural America—but in addition identifies the basis for a new framework for rural policy. Evidence that a new policy framework is needed is abundant (Stauber; Johnson and Martin). In one way or another, rural areas of North America and of most of the developed world have for at least the past century experienced secular decline compared to urban areas. ...

Sheila A. Martin is a senior economist in the Research Triangle Institute’s Center for Economics Research. She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Iowa State University in 1992 and holds an M.A. in International Studies from the University of Kentucky. At the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, she researched industrial and rural development policy issues, including industryand plant-le...

purpose: considering the important role of rural women in food security, the main purpose of this study is to study the rural women's empowerment in improving household food security. method: the research data was collected through questionnaires filled out by rural married women in divandareh county. based on random sampling, 213 of them were selected. the validity of questionnaire was confirm...

Maine. The Center builds upon the Institute's strong record of research, policy analysis, and policy development that addresses critical problems in health care financing and delivery. The Maine Rural Health Research Center's mission is to inform health care policymaking and the delivery of rural health services through high quality, policy relevant research, policy analysis and technical assis...

rural tourism is considered as one of the important parts of the economic activities. this important economic activity in the different views has been taken into consideration. some know it as a part of the tourism market and some consider it as a policy for rural development. rural tourism quickly grew in the rural economic and has been the complementary of agricultural activities. the nature ...

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are being increasingly used by the governments to deliver its services to both rural and urban people. Obviously, access and application of ICT will provide services to improve the income and welfare of rural poor. This will help reducing rural poverty and improve quality of life. In Iran, importance of using rural ICT benefits and advantage...

The purpose of this paper is to improve our understanding of the role of the non-farm rural economy in assisting the rural reconstruction of the Balkans (specifically, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Romania). The rural diversification, migration, employment, poverty and policy implications for this in terms of economic development and reconstruction as part of an...