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The Role of USDA, Land-Grant Universities and Other Agencies in Assisting Rural America--Research, Education and Technology Transfer. Experiences of the 1890 Land Grant Universities and Tuskegee Institute.

Williams, Thomas T., Ed. – 1984

The Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC) provides a forum for participants to articulate strategies to improve the quality of life for rural people. The PAWC is designed to provide a forum for people involved with university programs to exchange ideas and information; encourage development of action-oriented activities directed at…

Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Economic Development, Federal Programs

Focus on the Future: Options in Developing a New National Rural Policy. Proceedings of Four Regional Rural Development Policy Workshops (Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 19-21, 1988; Syracuse, New York, September 28-30, 1988; Birmingham, Alabama, October 3-5, 1988; and Reno, Nevada, October 11-13, 1988).

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Jones, Sue H., Ed. – 1989

Problems in federal rural policy arise in a number of areas: the extreme economic adversity of rural America, failure to acknowledge the higher cost of providing rural services, failure to distinguish between rural programs and agriculture programs, and failure to address specific rural needs. Papers in this collection examine rural development…

Descriptors: Agriculture, Change Strategies, Economic Change, Economic Development