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Rural Development as a Key to Achieve Zero Hunger in 2030

Zero Hunger

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Agricultural development, a subset of economic development, implies a sustained increase in the level of production and productivity over a reasonable length of time and the subsequently improved well-being of farmers as reflected in their higher per capita income and standard of living. Rural development relates not only to a sustained increase in the level of production and productivity of all rural dwellers, including farmers, and a sustained improvement in their well-being, manifested by increasing per capita income and standard of living, but also leads to a sustained physical, social, and economic improvement of rural communities (Nchuchuwe and Adejuwon 2012).

The definition of rural development has evolved through time as a result of changes in the perceived mechanisms and goals of development. Since the 1970s rural development as a concept has been highly associated with the promotion of standards of living and as a precondition for reducing rural poverty (Anriquez...

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Nejadrezaei, N., Ben-Othmen, M.A. (2019). Rural Development as a Key to Achieve Zero Hunger in 2030. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69626-3_43-2

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