Rural

research scholar at Wageningen University, specializing in natural resources and agriculture, made valuable edits to the book, Sustaining Agriculture and the Rural Environment: Governance, Policy and…

Help Groups 1. Rao (1994) defined SHGs as a means of raising the claim and making capacity of the rural poor for reaching out to such agencies as they are willing to work with and which can provided them with additional production resources. It also implies the development of their bargaining power to an extent that such agencies cannot culturally impose their conditions and regulations upon the rural poor as passive recipients. 2. Roul (1996) defined SHG as a group where members come together…

In the very recent past rural, agricultural America felt like it was an altogether a different country. Even as recent as the 1980’s many areas that are distant from the cities did not have even the most basic inventions of the 20th century American culture, such as the TV networks, access to cable, satellite and internet. If you were to drive through these areas a generation ago, it would feel like a trip to different nation in a different time. People living in these areas were exposed to…

the finger at the rise of capitalism and the ease of access to calorically dense, nutritionally empty fast food, the one thing that is often overlooked is the lack of resources in rural areas. Not only are rural areas often overlooked in general, their lack of available healthcare and often “food desert” status leaves rural areas underrepresented in terms of health and fitness. The National Library of Medicine defines obesity in general as “[…] having too much body fat. […] that a person 's…

for the citizens residing in the rural areas. Residents in the rural areas experience lack of diverse specialty care, difficult transportations due to geographical barriers, shortage of information and educational opportunities available to better understand healthcare. These difficulties often times make it challenging for the patients within the rural community to actively seek healthcare. While more than 20 percent of the American population resides in the rural area, only about 10 percent…

strategies must be demonstrated in order to keep primary care providers within the rural communities. These strategies include the recruitment of medical students from rural backgrounds, promoting more funding for rural health facilities, and teaching medical students necessary skills in reference to the environment to ensure success. Success is the most important aspect regarding to healthy outcomes. In order for the rural population to obtain more positive health outcomes, primary care…

Stewart. I found this journal the most interesting. Like this journal says This study extends social capital to specific types of personal relationships that encourage residents’ collective action for rural tourism development. Two communities in South Korea were examined using face-to-face interviews with community leaders, and a structured questionnaire with residents. Five hypotheses that frame tourism development as a coordinated effort of social…

remaining 27.8 percent live in only 5,480 towns and urban agglomerations (Population of India 2016, 2016). While urban cities have some paved roads and public transportation means such as trains and subways, much of the country is still exceedingly rural and lacks modern roadways. Very few cities of India have an adequate public transport system (Singh S. K., 2012). A Minneapolis-based company, Bepex, is considering outsourcing to India,…

What meanings do permanent residents and second homeowners construct and ascribe to Rangeley? Both groups of actors rely on similar narratives of the rural idyll to construct Rangeley’s place distinction—they imagine it to be safe, isolated, and removed from the problems associated with the rest of the world. This narrative itself is not unique to rural places; in fact, this narrative has been one of the most enduring narratives of rurality (Williams 1974; Woods 2011). However, what is unique is…

When looking at a person’s identity in related to a place, wind power scholars have shown the rural idyll to be important, but have failed to acknowledge the acceptance of turbines, instead focusing on opposition to them (Bohn and Lant, 2009; Phake, 2011; Pasqualetti; 2011). Also, research on the rural idyll has failed to explore the pre-construction/pre-decision stage of wind infrastructure in relation to social reasons behind its acceptance or dismissal (Pedersen et al. 2007; Bohn and Lant,…