RURAL Definitions

Importance
Goals
DEVELOPMENT
 DEFINITIONS
 , it connotes overall development in the rural areas with a
view to improve the quality of life of the rural people
 it is a comprehensive and multidimensional concept and
encompasses the development of agriculture and allied
activities – village and cottage industries and crafts, socio-
economic, infrastructure, community services and facilities,
and above all, the human resources in rural areas.
 as a process of developing and utilizing natural and human
resources, technologies, infrastructural facilities, institutions
and organizations, and government policies and programmes
to encourage and speed up economic growth in rural areas, to
provide jobs and to improve the quality of rural life towards
self-sustenance
 DEFINITIONS

 “Rural Development is a strategy to enable a specific group

of people, poor rural women and men, to gain for themselves
and their children more of what they want and need. It
involves helping the poorest among those who seek a
livelihood in the rural areas to demand and control more of
the benefits of rural development. The group includes small
scale farmers, tenants, and the landless.”(Robert Chamber)
 Rural development is a process of providing opportunities,
services and amenities to the rural people so that they can
improve their social, economic, political, cultural and physical
well-being an environmental consciousness (Battad, 2003).
 DEFINITIONS

 A process through which rural poverty is alleviated by sustained

increase in productivity and incomes of low-income rural workers and
households (Sison and Valera, 1991)
 A process of change among hundreds of thousands of rural people …
development refers only to those changes which are seen as desirable
among rural people who are changing (Axin, 1978).
 Is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of
people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely
populated areas(wikipedia)
 Rural development can be defined as the process to improve the quality
of life and the economic stability of the people living in rural areas,
especially those living in remote areas, away from major cities, and
when the population is a scarce. Because they are so far away from
civilization, modern innovations rarely reach them, and there are places
where people still live like hundreds of years ago without modern tools
to farm, or without easy access to drinking water(bloglet.com)
 IMPORTANCE

 THE IMPORTANCE OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The importance of rural development should be obvious,
especially in a world more concerned about sustainable
development, so far, the rural side was mainly focused on
agriculture and forestry, meaning the production of some of the
most essential resources.
The planet’s population is growing more and more, which is
why we are going to need more resources, especially food and
building materials, but fuels as well. Thus, agriculture has and
will always have to be a major interest only from now on it has
to be done in such a way that it meets human needs without
depleting resources for future generations.
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 The modernization of the world the expansion of urban areas

and the spread of touristic attractions and niche manufacturing
has switched the focus of rural development however, and now
we have to focus on more than agriculture. It can be said that
the planet’s future rests on rural development.
 Thus, when we’re talking about rural development today, we
also refer to innovations and improvements in education,
physical and social infrastructure, entrepreneurship and other
aspects which widen and enrich rural life. It is difficult however
to define or descried rural development in one sentence,
because unlike urban areas, which are now mostly similar and
globalized, rural areas differ from each other essentially, even
in the same country. Therefore, the methods or approaches one
might encounter are numerous and variate. (BLOGLET.COM)
 GOALS

Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education
Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower
women
Goal 4. Reduce child mortality
Goal 5. Improve maternal health
Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
diseases
Goal 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development