ILO pub. Article describing the institutional framework, administrative aspects and services of an established rural worker organization in the Philippines - covers financing support, provision of legal aid, workers education, agricultural cooperative activities, membership recruitment, control...

ILO pub. Article describing the cooperative education training programme carried out by the agricultural cooperative movement in Greece - examines the present situation, relates it to the educational system and evaluates training needs.

Working paper on the impact of post-independence development policies and agricultural policies on rural women in Mozambique. Examines the political ideology regarding the economic and social roles of women, particularly in the agricultural sector. Explains women's traditional role in...

Discusses the role of African cooperatives in creating salaried employment and self employment in worker-owned, social and financial cooperatives.

ILO pub. Article examining the prospects for eliminating hunger by the year 2000 in the face of global economic recession - discusses existing food shortages, malnutrition, national level food policy measures, the importance of small farm promotion, improved agricultural credit, labour intensive...

ILO pub. Article presenting a basic needs approach to problems of unequal access concerning rural area production factors, public services and technological change in Bangladesh - shows how low incomes and limited access to agricultural credit, chemical fertilizers and rural institutions,...

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper analyzing trends in public expenditure on rural development, education and health services to satisfy basic needs in Ecuador from 1970 to 1980 - considers the socioeconomic disparities and rural urban disparities in the impact on household income, access...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on human settlement programmes for land settlement in remote rural areas of Latin America - contrasts integrated rural development programmes with frontier colonisation programmes; reviews recent trends in settlement; discusses obstacles facing such development...