Living in the city is really different to living in the country.

None of the rural areas in Lebanon were particularly remote, and there was no great distinction between rural life and urban life.

Women take an active part in the public life of the village.

Around 65 per cent of young people live in the rural regions.

Nearly 68 of the population lives in rural areas.

Not all rural areas are yet electrified.

It is obvious that the quality of life in rural areas is poor.

Move to the countryside. Where i will feel close to god.

And then I thought out of curiosity I'd like to go and live and work and just see what a village is like.

Updated information should also be provided on the situation of rural women, especially given the significant decrease in the proportion of the overall population living in rural areas.

They impeded productive activities, particularly in rural areas.

The majority of my fellow young people live in rural areas.

Eighty five per cent of the Cambodian population lives in rural areas (para. 360).

First, the rural poor must be understood in their own context.

To create sound living conditions in the village (aul) on the basis of the optimized rural settlement, the State Programme for Development of Rural Areas for 2004 2010 has been under implementation since 2004.

In rural areas, women are involved in selling at markets, or they earn their living as farm workers on private farms.

Inadequate health care.

60 of the children participating in the Program live in rural areas.

Most of the people concerned lived in rural areas of developing countries.

In 2001, 41.7 per cent of Nicaraguans lived in rural areas. Women accounted for a slightly higher percentage of the rural population than of the urban population.

Everyday life in the village differs from that in the city, but the situation is gradually improving. Today, virtually all rural residents have electricity, and two thirds have gas.

DEVELOPMENT Our rural development programmes are aimed at self reliance of rural women through promoting skill training, income generation activities and supportive activities.

In 1980, 73 of the total population lived in the agricultural areas while the remainder lived in the 12 cities considered urban areas.

I came back home, told my mother, I'd like to live and work in a village.

In order to improve rural infrastructure and standard of life the Rural Development and Agricultural Market Regulation Act provides for various state benefits to support people living in rural areas.

Since the Gambia was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, the Government needed to develop a comprehensive rural development policy, in particular to improve the lives and rights of rural women.

In Myanmar, where 70 per cent of the population lived in rural areas, women played a crucial role working on farms and engaging in off farm activities.

90. Since its creation, the mandate of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been directed at alleviating rural poverty and thus improving livelihoods on a sustainable basis.

(e) Division of Peasant Women and Rural Organization, in the Ministry of Agriculture, which encourages productive projects run by peasant women.

The Ministry of Agricultural Development has a rural women apos s programme, which runs activities to guarantee a living for rural families and reduce their migration to urban areas.

It has helped to value life in the countryside and to re invigorate village life through the activities of societies, common events, competitions to take care of public areas, and voluntary work.

The main goal of the movement is to preserve, revive and contribute to the harmonious development of Estonian rural and village life, as well as support rural economy, village movement and national culture.

In rural areas, the economic activity rates stand at 38 per cent of total rural inhabitants the rate is 10.2 per cent for females and 65.5 per cent for males.

Employment of women in rural areas

Identifying income generating activities related to the production, generation or use of energy in rural areas.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

Thanks to the activities described above, today many women are in a position to fend for themselves and to earn incomes.

It regards agrarian reform as the hope for a better quality of life for the majority of the people who live in the countryside.

Noting that hundreds of millions of women worldwide live in poverty and that the majority of poor women throughout the world live in rural areas, where their livelihoods are dependent on subsistence and smallholder agriculture,

As 75 per cent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main stay of the economy, raising agricultural productivity has real impact on poverty reduction.

Women are given equal rights with men in all spheres of life and public activity.

In order to solve problems that hindered rural development, Estonia used the financing from the SAPARD programme toward improving agricultural competitiveness and developing rural life environment, entrepreneurship and infrastructure.

Rural Pakistani women are not only responsible for time and energy consuming household tasks but are also major contributors to the rural economy particularly in three sub sectors crop production, livestock production and cottage industry.

Given that 70 per cent of people in extreme poverty live in rural areas, renewed focus should be placed on rural and agricultural development.

BY AGE GROUP AND SEX, SEPTEMBER 1994