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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Socio-economic Information for Ohio Agriculture and Rural Communities
Author: Rural Development Research Report
Author: Part-time Farming
Author: Jayne T. MacLeanPublisher:
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Category : Farmers, Part-time
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Educational Level of Farm Residents and Workers
Author: Frank A. FratoePublisher:
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Housing Credit, a Rural-urban Comparison
Author: Hughes Hudson SpurlockPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Abstract: Home mortgage credit is less available in rural areas than in urban. The major reason is the limited number of savings and loans (S&L's) operating in rural areas. Banks are the major source of housing credit in rural areas whereas S&L's are most active in metro areas.
Locality and Inequality
Author: Linda M. LobaoPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791404751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American agriculture, have declined during the postwar period and are now under severe financial stress. Large-scale industrialized farms -- "the factories in the field," often run by corporations -- continue to expand their share of agricultural sales while small farms operated on a part-time basis appear to be replacing traditional family farming. Lobao shows that public concern about farm restructuring is indeed warranted and that the nation now appears to be losing its most beneficial farms as well as industries. While local and regional social and economic forces and state policy can be brought to bear on these trends, Lobao particulary focuses on how community empowerment and broad-based political coalitions offer the most promise for fundamental change.
Rural Industrialization
Author: Patricia La Caille JohnPublisher:
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Category : Rural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Rural Wealth Creation
Author: John L. PenderPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135121966
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development. The authors define wealth as all assets net of liabilities that can contribute to well-being, and they provide examples of many forms of capital – physical, financial, human, natural, social, and others. They propose a conceptual framework for rural wealth creation that considers how multiple forms of wealth provide opportunities for rural development, and how development strategies affect the dynamics of wealth. They also provide a new accounting framework for measuring wealth stocks and flows. These conceptual frameworks are employed in case study chapters on measuring rural wealth and on rural wealth creation strategies. Rural Wealth Creation makes numerous contributions to research on sustainable rural development. Important distinctions are drawn to help guide wealth measurement, such as the difference between the wealth located within a region and the wealth owned by residents of a region, and privately owned versus publicly owned wealth. Case study chapters illustrate these distinctions and demonstrate how different forms of wealth can be measured. Several key hypotheses are proposed about the process of rural wealth creation, and these are investigated by case study chapters assessing common rural development strategies, such as promoting rural energy industries and amenity-based development. Based on these case studies, a typology of rural wealth creation strategies is proposed and an approach to mapping the potential of such strategies in different contexts is demonstrated. This book will be relevant to students, researchers, and policy makers looking at rural community development, sustainable economic development, and wealth measurement.
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