The rural communities in South Korea have faced serious challenges as the country has gradually opened the agricultural market and extended the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement with more and more countries. Moreover, due to the national socio-economic and political structures, South Korea has been undergoing the technological imbalance between rural and urban areas. In order to cope with thes...

The majority of rural population in China has limited access to agricultural information at present. Wanquan County was chosen as the studied area, in where the research used questionnaire to survey the current situation of peasants’ demands for agricultural information, as well as the information delivery approaches. A questionnaire was developed and data were collected from 200 peasant househ...

BACKGROUND Populations in agricultural communities require health care that is interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral to address the high rate of workplace deaths, preventable injuries and illness. These rates are compounded by limited access to services and the distinctive personal values and culture of farming populations, which both health and rural practitioners must be aware of to red...

The rural communities in South Korea have faced serious challenges as the country has gradually opened the agricultural market and extended the conclusion of Free Trade Agreement with more and more countries. Moreover, due to the national socio-economic and political structures, South Korea has been undergoing the technological imbalance between rural and urban areas. In order to cope with thes...

BACKGROUND Guatemala has experienced a substantial increase in overweight and obesity in recent years, yet physical activity patterns and consequent energy expenditure are largely unexplored in this population. METHODS To describe overall physical activity levels (PAL) and activities contributing to daily energy expenditure, we analyzed time spent in daily activities as reported by 985 women ...

While “agricultural and rural development” is one of the key policy areas, there is no universally accepted way on how to classify the urban and rural. On one hand, dissatisfied with the OECD approach in which a “rural area” is defined merely based on the population density, there has been a rich literature in the statistical discourse and policy debate on what other variables should be conside...

The economical situation at agricultural industry has been changed rapidly in Korea for the last 40 years. The population in farming area decreased sharply and the labor demand increased dramatically. The portion of the old and women has been increased. The farm size, and farm rural wage have been increased. Those were the driving forces of the mechanization in agricultural industry. The Agricu...

This paper takes Beijing as an instance, launches investigation and survey on 152 rural residents, and analyzes the real demands of rural residents in the progress of e-commerce implementation in developed areas to provide government with support for the further construction in the relevant aspect. 71.71% of rural residents have ever heard about this concept, but among all the interviewees, 24....

The refer and policy implications of “the separation of three rights” can promote the management right of rural land transfer orderly. Based on the 486 questionnaire data of 17 cities in Shandong Province, we use Logistic model make empirical analysis on the impact of “the separation of three rights” to the management right of rural land. The results prove that the policy of “the separation of ...

In recent years India is experiencing a rapid economic growth, especially after the 1990s when India started to liberalize its economy in a full scale. However, the author emphasizes the critical importance of the preceded 1980s when Indian agricultural sector registered a high growth rate. The Green Revolution in India started in the late 1960s and with its success India attained food self-suf...