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unusual facts about Rural Development


Metro Chilpancingo

Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food - a satellite office is located a few blocks southwest of the station


Huang Hui

She has been the recipient of the prize for Excellent Design from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China for her design of Beijing High School No.4.

Kwadwo Adjei-Darko

He is the former Minister of Mines back in the early 2000s, and as of 2008, he was the Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Environment of Ghana and a Member of Parliament for the Sunyani West Constituency.

Nalanda Open University

NOU offers a Master of Arts (M.A) in Magahi, Bhojpuri, Rural Development, Economics, Geography, Hindi, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Public Administration, Journalism & Mass Communication, Education and Urdu.

Satej Patil

Popularly known as Bunty among the masses, he has previously held the posts of Minister of Rural Development, Food & Drugs Administration.

Shooting of Hosie Miller

News of the incident received publicity in July, 2010 after Miller's daughter, Shirley Sherrod, revealed her version of the events shortly after the controversy surrounding her resignation as Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.


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Agriculture in Haiti

Neither the government nor the private sector invested much in rural ventures; in FY 1989 only 5 percent of the national budget went to the Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Development (Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Resources Naturelles et du Développement Rural—MARNDR).

Bill Luxton

Luxton's portfolios in the Falkland Islands Government included Civil Aviation, Development Corporation, Aquaculture and Rural Development.

Centre for Appropriate Rural Development

The Centre for Appropriate Rural Development (CART) is a community based sustainable development project based in Sicambeini Village, near Port St. Johns, South Africa.

Chris Swedzinski

He served as a district representative for former U.S. Representative Mark Kennedy for five years, and also worked as a Rural Development Specialist for the United States Department of Agriculture, designing and facilitating outreach plans and strategies for rural businesses and renewable energy efforts.

Clement Kengava

He represents a constituency on the island of Choiseul, and has served as Minister for Rural Development and Indigenous Affairs and as Minister for Health and Medical Services.

Clifford McIntire

McIntire served as director of the American Farm Bureau Federation and was a member of Richard Nixon’s Task Force on Rural Development between 1969 and 1970.

Codjo François Azodogbehou

He was a Central Committee member of the People's Revolutionary Party of Benin and Minister of Rural Development and Cooperative Action.

Community development

With Indian independence, despite the continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and capitalism.During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme with focus on rural development activities through government support.

Covington Dells, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on January 1, 2006 as part of Fort Wayne's Southwest Extended Annexation of parts of Wayne and Aboite townships.

Crestwood, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts on February 11, 1960 as part of Fort Wayne's Crestwood Colony Annexation.

Gabriel Janowski

Gabriel Janowski (born on 22 April 1947 in Konstantów) – Polish politician, activist of opposition in People's Republic of Poland, senator of the first term of office of Senate of the Republic of Poland, MP of first, third and fourth term of office of Sejm, from 1991 do 1993 the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Ipoola Alani Akinrinade

In General Ibrahim Babangida's government he was appointed Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development (1985–1986), Minister of Industries (1988 - February 1989) and Minister of Transport (1989).

James B. Pearson

Pearson and Democrat Fred Harris of Oklahoma introduced the first major legislation with economic incentives for rural development.

Jan Satyagraha 2012

Jairam Ramesh, Minister of Rural Development, Government of India, Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia, Member of Parliament from the Congress Party and Rajagopal P. V., president of Ekta Parishad, made speeches.

Kegalle

Sir.Edwin Wijeyeratne - First elected member of Kegalle to State Council of Ceylon, Sri Lankan independence activist & Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development in the government of D.S.Senanayake

Landesa

Landesa was founded as the Rural Development Institute in 1967 by Professor Roy Prosterman, a Harvard Law School graduate who left his Wall Street career at Sullivan & Cromwell to teach at the University of Washington School of Law where he established the Law in Sustainable Development Program.

Liberty Hills, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts as part of Fort Wayne's Southwest Extended Annexation of parts of Wayne and Aboite townships.

Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

To enhance economic opportunity in these impoverished areas, the LSU AgCenter has established the Delta Rural Development Center in Oak Grove in the northeastern corner of the state.

Ludwig Park, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on March 6, 1979 as part of Fort Wayne's Ludwig Park Annexation.

Maplewood Park, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on December 31, 1991 as part of Fort Wayne's Northeast Phase II Annexation.

Marilyn Douala Bell

Since 1994 she has been collaborating as an international expert in urban and rural development with the Swiss cooperation DDC, the World Bank, the European Commission and with the German sustainable development and resource management cooperation Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.

Media of Ghana

The paper had several functions: to provide information for civil servants and European merchants; and to help promote literacy rates and rural development amongst the local population - whilst encouraging unity with the Gold Coast government.

Phahrolrazi Zawawi

Datuk Haji Phahrolrazi bin Haji Zawawi is a member of the Executive Council of the Malaysian state of Kedah, chairing the Committee for Rural Development, Entrepreneur and Public Works.

Prachanda

He received a diploma of science in agriculture (ISc-Ag) from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (IAAS) in Rampur, Chitwan, and was once employed at a rural development project sponsored by USAID: the project site was Jajarkot.

Project RISHI

The UC Berkeley Chapter of Project RISHI was established in March 2008 and has continually worked in tandem with UCLA to develop sustainable solutions to rural development in Vadamanappakkam, a village located 100 km south of Chennai in Tiruvannamalai District, Tamil Nadu.

Providing Urban Amenities to Rural Areas

Provision of Urban Amenities to Rural Areas (PURA) is a strategy for rural development in India.

Royal Oaks, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on September 21, 1991 as part of Fort Wayne's Northeast Phase I Annexation.

Royville, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts on March 16, 1963 as part of Fort Wayne's Springwood Addition Annexation.

Sanjay Ghose

Apart from graduating in rural development and law with college and university honours, he also edited the college magazine, ran the English literature club, and won University of Mumbai competitions for quizzing and debating.

Shobha Karandlaje

She was elected as MLA from Yeswanthpur, Bangalore in May, 2008 and was appointed as the minister for rural development and Panchayat Raj in the B.S. Yeddyurappa government.

St. Joseph's College, Colombo

Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne - former Cabinet Minister of Home Affairs and Rural Development

Stanford Blade

Blade has served in a number of leadership roles in Canada, such as the Director of the Crop Division of Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (AAFRD), and Research Director of the Alberta Barley Commission.

Surjit Singh Rakhra

He is Minister for Rural Development & Panchayat in the present Punjab Government.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

Roy Prosterman is the founder of the Rural Development Institute (RDI) (which recently changed its name to Landesa) and is active in the fields of land reform, rural development and foreign aid.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budget for the United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, and the Food and Drug Administration.

University of the Philippines Visayas

It offers the following academic programs: Undergraduate — B.S. Accountancy, B.S. Business Administration (Marketing), and B.S. Management; Graduate — Master of Management in Business Management, Public Management, Rural Development Management, and Tax Management.

Volunteers for Rural India

It runs a scheme which enables members of VRI to visit rural India at a project in the village of Amarpurkashi, Moradabad district, Uttar Pradesh, where they can assist with a rural development project there and learn about other development projects in India.

Wellenstein

On 25 October 2005, members of the pan-European organisation Cultural Village of Europe offered a declaration on village life to the European Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development Mariann Fischer Boel in Wellenstein.

Whitecroft railway station

Much of the funding for the restoration programme came from a Rural Development grant, administered by the Forest of Dean Local Action Group in Coleford.