Rural community development

thumb|upright=1.1|Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk

thumb|upright=1.5|A garden cultivated on permaculture principles

microfinance organization and community development bank

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Movement started as part of Indian Independence movement

Shifting cultivation or Jhum cultivation

population shift from rural to urban areas

socioeconomic model of agriculture and food distribution

cooperative in agriculture where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity

American writer

German economist (1818–1888)

movement of people who prefer to eat foods which are grown or farmed relatively close to the places of sale and preparation

type of agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise

Mozdahir (also known as the Mozdahir International Institute; French name: Institut Mozdahir International, IMI or Institut international de Mozdahir) is an international non-governmental organization based in Dakar, Senegal.

peasant revolt

Wildcrafting (also known as foraging, especially in North America) is the practice of harvesting plants from their natural, or 'wild' habitat, primarily for food or medicinal purposes. It applies to uncultivated plants wherever they may be found, which can include both wilderness areas and urban foraging. Ethical considerations are often involved, such as protecting endangered species, potential for depletion of commonly held resources, and in the context of private property, preventing theft of valuable plants, for example, ginseng.

healthcare providers who underwent basic medical training and worked in rural villages in China

large-scale acquisition of farmland (over 1,000 ha) whether by purchase, leases or other means.

non-profit organization in the USA

Military conflict

private international development agency

organization in Mexico

farm efficiency through education

thumb|Gedera, before 1899 thumb|Yokneam Moshava|Yokneam (moshava) thumb|Yavne'el (moshava) A moshava (, plural: moshavot , colony) was a form of agricultural Jewish settlement in the region of Palestine (now Israel), established by the members of the Old Yishuv beginning in the late 1870s and during the first two waves of Jewish Zionist immigration – the First and Second Aliyah.

secular intentional living community in rural Virginia

international development organization based in Bangladesh

author, influential figure in the self-sufficiency movement (1914-2004)

thumb|Satoyama landscape in Inagi, Tokyo thumb|Satoyama landscape of paddy fields and forest in [[Sasayama, Hyōgo]] is a Japanese term applied to the border zone or area between mountain foothills and arable flat land. Literally, sato () means village, and yama () means hill or mountain. Satoyama have been developed through centuries of small-scale agricultural and forestry use.

highway initiative in India

thumb|right|upright=1.2|An oral community in Takéo Province|Takéo, [[Cambodia, confronts writing. Modern scholarship has shown that orality is a complex and tenacious social phenomenon.]] Orality is thought and verbal expression in societies, distinct from the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print). The study of orality is closely allied to the study of oral tradition.

Network of food communities

desert greening project, Saudi Arabia

association of Alberta farmers

The Wadi Rum Consultancy of Wadi Rum Organic Farms

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GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

legally defined farm type in all former socialist countries in CIS and CEE; small plot of land (typically less than 0.5 hectares) attached to a rural residence

organization

thumb|Svanholm Svanholm is a country estate and former manor west of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1978 an association of over 100 persons bought the estate to create Denmark's largest intentional community. The Svanholm collective grows its own food and was one of the pioneers of organic farming in Denmark. As of January 2006, membership consisted of 70 adults and 35 children aged 0 to 80, jointly owning around of farmland, park, and woodlands.

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department of the Spanish public administration

non-partisan farmer's representative organisation in India

agrarian movement advocating a self-sufficient farming lifestyle