Agricultural and Rural Green Development (ARGD) and economic growth are major challenges prevalent in China, but also in other developing countries, and the coordination relationship between them is still unknown. This paper first offers a theoretical analysis of the interactive relationship...

Following the Minimum Food Security Quota (MFS-Quota) proposed by Ruiz Estrada, Ndoma, and Park (2016) to evaluate and determine the food sustainability of any given developing and least developed countries in the event of any famine this paper sets out to apply the MFS-Quota to test...

This article contributes to the ongoing discussion on rural development programs aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Global South. The research question examines how the Smart Rural Communities (SRC) framework can support the SDGs as an international cooperation model....

An innovative model describing the convergence of technology use at the micro level is introduced. ICT (information and communication technology) ownership, measured as the number of smartphones within a household, depends upon socioeconomic character- istics, such as income, education,...

This paper reviews the current state of literature on the impacts of urbanisation on rural development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), with special emphasis to the pathways through which urbanisation affect rural economic development. Assessments of these effects diverge greatly....