Re-Discovering Rural Development : A Reflection on Potential and Prospects
Contents: Preface. 1. The state of rural development in India/Yoginder K. Alagh. 2. Rural development: an anthropological approach/B.R. Ghosh. 3. Rural development in India: a retrospection/Nanjunda DC. 4. Traditional knowledge utilization and sustainable rural development in the 21 century/D. Kolawole. 5. Development of technologies for rural areas: need for new thinking/Nirvikar Singh. 6. Information technology and rural development in India/Nirvikar Singh. 7. Certification and marketing strategies for sustainable commercialization of medicinal and aromatic plants for rural development/Madhav Karki. 8. Biotechnology and rural development: implications for Southern African Agriculture/Noch Zerba. 9. Decentralisation and natural resource management in rural South Africa: Problems and prospects/Lungisile Ntsebeza. 10. Sustainable building technologies for rural India/V. Venkatarama Reddy. 11. Energy technologies and policies for rural development/A.K.N. Reddy. 12. Education and rural women: towards an alternative perspective/Vina Mazumdar. 13. The politics of environmental technology choice for rural electrification in Northern Thailand/Donna Green. 14. Post-harvest technology for employment generation in rural sector India/Nawab Ali. 15. Sustainable development at the village level through integrated energy planning/Calvin Sophistus King and M. Ramachandran. 16. Medicinal plants for rural and tribal Karnataka: promise, practise and a way forward/Nanjunda D.C. 17. Corporate farming in India: is it must for agricultural development?/Sukhpal Singh. 18. Rural urban disparity in India: a hurdle for Indian planning/D.M. Nanjundappa. 19. Eco-tourism: ultimate oxygen for rural India/Annapurna M., Venu Gopal P.N. and Nanjunda D.C. 20. Technology development for rural women: some points/C.L. Kshyap. 21. Indigenous and scientific knowledge for rural development: some critical comments/Arun Agrawal. 22. Community based rural energy development in Nepal: experiences and lessons from innovative approaches/Mahendra Neupane and Bikash Sharma. 23. Biotechnology opportunities in rural development/S.C. Jain. 24. Energy for rural development: a reconsideration/Agarwal A.K. 25. Two fold approaches for rural development: a reconsideration for evaluation/Nanjunda D.C. 26. Socio-economic requirements of appropriate technologies for eradication of rural poverty/K. Prasad. 27. Role of food processing in eradicating rural poverty and unemployment/Brijbhushan. 28. Promotion of rural health: experience of an NGO/Nanjunda D.C. and Steven Wind S. 29. Rural housing technology and poverty eradication/G.C. Mathur. 30. Environmental dynamics and rural development/Shukla. 31. Development of science and technology for women to boost rural productivity/K. Sarkar. 32. Combating rural unemployment through rural industrialization/M.G. Rao and Surya Prakesh Rao. 33. Rural development in India: success or failure?/Binu and Mohan D. 34. Using IK for agriculture and rural development: current issues and studies/D. Michael Warren. 35. Combating rural poverty and NGOs: a development prospective/Nanjunda DC, Venugopal PN., Jyothi Lakshmi S. and Bhasker M. Reference. Index.
"The main and vital objective of this volume is to make in the book a few selected articles that represent some of the more worthwhile contributions to the knowledge of rural development. Basically these articles have been screened from an original list of several hundred articles from the different resources. However, few articles have been written exclusively for this volume only. While selecting the articles, Author has tried completely to emphasis the concept, principles and applied aspects of the rural development and have tried promptly to concentrate more on practical development oriented articles relating to science and technology. This volume will be highly useful to faculty members, agricultural teaching colleges, farmers and NGOs working on rural and tribal development and to the other researchers." (jacket)
