While intergovernmental cooperation has received significant attention in research, inter-village government collaboration remains understudied. This study examines agrotourism development in Tanggeran, Kemawi, and Klinting villages in Banyumas Regency, Indonesia, exploring opportunities and...

Our society has a love-hate relationship with its rural communities. While revering rural areas as embodying the ultimate in quality of life, rural citizens are simultaneously denigrated as uneducated, backward, and unsophisticated. In this Article, Professor Bassett notes that our society's...

This chapter considers the linkages between agricultural development and rural non-farm activities. The chapter is motivated by growing evidence that non-farm activities provide an increasingly important share of rural incomes in many low-income questions, questions about whether increasing...

Agriculture is the prominent activity in the rural areas of Armenia. It is estimated to represent about 80% of rural employment, which is among the highest in countries in transition. This is partly a consequence of the collapse of industrial and other economic activities at the outset of...