Population education is the educational process which helps people understand the implications of population factors for the well-being of the individual, the family and society. Such education seeks to equip the individual with knowledge, understanding and skills that enable him to assess population situations and trends in terms of the problems…

Since all Agency for International Development (AID) projects require an evaluation component, AID's emphasis on assistance to agriculture and rural development projects ensures a continuing need for skilled and expert personnel to evaluate those projects. Intended for potential AID project evaluators, this guide uses experience gained from field…

This rural education action packet consists of 10 resource pamphlets dealing with "putting the rural back into rural education," a special project of Communicating for Agriculture (CA) and the CA Foundation. Information about and an application for becoming a Rural Education Action District (READ) are included. These districts are…

In their role as change agents, rural development personnel often modify the environment in which they are operating when they introduce different technology, institutional modifications, etc. Because these actions can change the relationship between the rural population and its habitat and may encourage out-migration or in-migration, rural…

This manual, developed for use by Peace Corps volunteers, attempts to help development counselors to understand the needs of remote-area groups and to provide for those needs through effective self-help projects. The projects covered are those that can solve most effectively, on the village level, the most pressing problems. The manual is written…