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Rural Development
- To understand and be able to explain the key features of “rurality.”
- To learn about and evaluate the paradigm shifts in thinking about rural development.
- To use the “sustainable livelihoods” concept to understand agriculture in context and to critically assess claims made about smallholder households (e.g., as “rational,” “tradition-bound,” or “multi-locational”).
- To discover the principal challenges to rural development in the 21st century.