Thus, the agricultural institutions working in rural development, in an attempt to facilitate rural funding, has been creating alternative sources of funding such as Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (FFADR), Fisheries Development Fund (FFP), Small Industry Development Fund (FFPI), Fund for Agricultural Credit and Rural Development (CCADR), etc.

The Fund for Integrated Rural Development of Syria (FIRDOS)

DRI Fund Rural Investment Cofinancing Fund

Also in 1995, Decree 166 established the Rural Organization and Training Fund (CAPACITAR) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

7 International Fund for Agricultural Development, Assessment of Rural Poverty Asia and the Pacific (Rome, 2002).

CAPACITAR Rural Organization and Training Fund

Women in Rural Development (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock raising and Rural Development)

10 Household food security implications for policy and action for rural poverty alleviation and nutrition , International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1996.

For example, in the area of rural development and food security, ACC in April 1997 endorsed the proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to establish the ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security to replace the former ACC Subcommittee on Rural Development.

Rural and agricultural development

Rural development and agriculture

Kerala Rural Development Agency

Kerala Rural Development Agency

reform and rural development

Agriculture and rural development

Rural and women's entrepreneurship development.

(b) Agriculture and rural development

Agrarian situation and rural development

Rural women and sustainable development , paper presented to the Conference on Rural Sustainable Development, Alexandria, Egypt, 1992

However rural women are the main beneficiaries of the Zakat fund.

Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) also primarily serves the rural communities.

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD, 2001) Practical guide on monitoring and evaluation of rural development projects , (see www.ifad.org gbdocs eb ec e 29 EC 2001 29 WP 3.pdf).

CONDRAF Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Rural the National Council for Rural Development

Development fund

International Fund for Agricultural Development, The State of World Rural Poverty An Inquiry into Its Causes and Consequences (New York, New York University Press, 1992).

ADRI Action for Integrated Rural Development

Deputy Director General Urban Rural Development

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(a) Rural development management and financing

Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) . 11

AGRARIAN REFORM AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (ANGOC)

7. Minister of Rural Development, Egypt

Role of the Rural Women's Development Unit in training and educating rural women

In 2003 and 2004, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) designed and implemented agricultural and rural development programmes and fostered participation and empowerment of the rural poor as a building block of the community driven development approaches which form a crucial part of the long term vision of democratic governance.

THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR, 1995 Acronyms DRI Fund Rural Investment Cofinancing Fund INCORA Columbian Agrarian Reform Institute INPA National Fisheries and Agriculture Institute INAT National Land Development Institute IDEMA Agricultural Marketing Institute CORPOICA Columbian Agricultural Research Corporation.

Rural development increasing food output and incomes

Minister for Rural Development and the Environment

I. Agriculture, rural development and food security

(c) Strengthening of domestic rural agricultural economies by actively contributing to integrated rural development planning.

Additionally, young people highlight the need to invest in entrepreneurial activities for rural youth, e.g., by creating a fund for young rural entrepreneurs.

Ms. von Lilien Waldau (International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)) said that the report of the Secretary General contained in document A 60 165 rightly highlighted how improving the economic status of women could lead to a dramatic acceleration of rural development and the reduction of rural poverty.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Recognizing the critical role and contribution of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty,

Goal 1 Poverty Eradication Rural Development Engage and empower people living in poverty and rural areas.