India a largely agrarian economy has got majority of population in rural area. It is now transforming to industrial and service economy. As in most countries, India’s towns and cities also make a major contribution to the country’s economy. With less than 1/3rd of India’s people, its urban...

Revision for development plan of suda-2035 was initiated in 2013 and yet to be approved. Earlier development plans were lacking the scientific studies of interdependencies of settlements of fringe areas. As fringe zone emerges adjustment between rural & urban way of life which starts drawing...

Iran is a country of conflicts. One of the conflicting areas is located between the fundamental legislations and the laws passed throughout the years. Through the current study, the conflict between Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA) and Law on Sixth Five-year Development...

Evidence from studies across Latin America show that rural households in the region are increasingly employing a diverse set of activities to maintain and improve livelihoods suggesting that households use multiple paths to get out of poverty. Of particular importance in household livelihood...

Decades of agricultural research have led to the development of technological innovations and improved farming practices that hold a huge potential for increasing agricultural production and achieving global food security. However, the level of dissemination and adoption of this knowledge is...

Smallholder farmers in developing countries often lack appropriate cereal storage facilities which can contribute to food insecurity and low cereal commercialization, particularly when they can only rely on one cropping season with no irrigation. Lack of quality storage can lead to post-harvest...

Agricuture Ministry of Russia has developed a draft of the State program of integrated development of rural territories (SP IDRT) for 2020–20251. Fundamental difference of the new program from the current Federal Target Program “Sustainable development of rural areas for 2014–2017 and the...

Empowerment, as a means and an end of human development, is related to the vulnerable or disadvantaged sections of the society like women. The paper aims at examining the provisions for women empowerment in the five year plans of India. Uncertainty or problems arise when moving theory to...