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Rural & Social Development Issues
The social dimensions of agriculture form an important part of agricultural practice and systems, and include issues such as rural livelihoods, poverty, rural-urban migration, and gender. Such issues are important considerations for any programs or initiatives in the agriculture sector.This section provides resources specific to these issues, including research papers, case studies and policy documents.
Gender
- Women help solve hunger. Why is the world still waiting?
- Gender in agriculture source book
- Tackling gender issues in sustainable land management
- Role of women in agriculture: ACIAR projects
- Developing womenÂ’s entrepreneurship & e-business in green cooperatives in the Asian and Pacific region
- Regional boards: understanding the impact of gender diversity on board performance
- Gender, change & resistance: menÂ’s response to womenÂ’s networks in the Australian sugar industry
- Gender checklist: agriculture
- Gender and land compendium of country studies
- Gender and sustainable development in drylands
- Building on gender, agrobiodiversity and local knowledge: a training manual
Migration
- Seasonal migration for livelihoods in India: coping, accumulation & exclusion
- Internal migration, poverty & development in Asia
- Children on the move: rural-urban migration & access to education in Mongolia
- Impacts of international migration & remittances on source country household incomes: Fiji & Tonga
- Season migration and agriculture in Vietnam
Agriculture & poverty reduction
- Contract farming & poverty reduction: organic rice contract farming in Thailand
- Income generation for the rural poor: the Australian aid program's rural development strategy
- Pro-poor intervention strategies in irrigated agriculture in Asia
- Agriculture & achieving the Millennium Development Goals
- Small homegarden plots & sustainable livelihoods for the poor
- Upland rice, household food security & commercialization: Vietnam