The project took up fodder innovations on a pilot basis in 12 watershed villages in 2004 in partnership with Accion Fraterna/Rural Development Trust (AF/ RDT), Anantapur. AF/RDT has conducted participatory rural appraisals (PRAs) to prepare an action plan for 2004. The PRA methods used ...
“Cloud [service] is continuing to pick up for us. Security is I think going to be an even more important play for us as we go forward,” McAdam noted. “I think these large enterprise accounts, offering them kind of a global service with those up the stack […and…] ...
Introduction China has experienced rapid economic development for over 30 years, which has accelerated the improvement of rural and urban areas. However, these improvements are imbalanced. A significant gap is observed between rural and urban areas in their physical conditions, such as their living ...
However, studies on the roles of those actors in the neo-endogenous rural development and rural social innovation have been scarce. 1.1.3. Application of 3D Visualization Technology in Planning Many studies have been conducted of landscape perceptions [26]; in a number of these studies, still ...
To promote Rural Entrepreneurship by providing intensive training in various skills domains to unemployed youth through different Institutes (RSETIs/RUDSETIs/ATIs/CBIITs) established across the country under the aegis of Canara Bank Centenary Rural Development Trust (CBCRDT). Monitoring the performance ...
In particular, the elements of social capital, such as trust [29,32], the specific manner in which Chinese indigenous residents dwell in their place—guanxi—were examined in Chinese rural tourism development [33]. The roles of the main stakeholders of rural tourism, including individual ...
capital (i.e., gender, age, education, marriage, unemployment, social-economic status, household annual income, household wealth and household size), individual-level social capital (i.e., civic trust, civic participation, political trust, political participation), and community-level social capital...
However, due to the over-exploitation of resources and the uneven development between urban and rural in China, the environmental conditions and residential experience in rural settlements in China are still relatively backward. To prompt the environmental quality and residential comfort of rural ...
However, since the 1960s, these farmlands increasingly became a site for urban development, which lead to a degradation of the environment and the loss of local farming and food cultures. With the recent economic crisis, the process of urbanization slowed down, allowing some of the huertos to ...
Public participation requires effec- tive and reliable communication between a self-government and community members to establish mutual trust [11,15]. Public involvement enables the local authorities to identify the most pressing needs and modify their decisions accordingly [16]. Therefore, the cooper...