Young people and migrant workers are the bulk of rural Internet users in terms of online music, online games, online film and television, and the Internet's capacity for entertainment, rural Internet users are equivalent to urban ones.

Pesticide Action Network (PAN)

National Network for Rural Women

International Rural Women apos s Network.

Another regional initiative is the Sustainable Agriculture Networking and Extension (SANE).

Rural telephone links (400 430 MHZ)

The country has an agricultural economy with a network of canals irrigating a major part of its cultivated land.

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However, compared to that in cities, rural use of online news, search engines, online shopping, online banking, online stocks and so on is much lower.

DIANA Direct Information Access Network for Africa (FAO)

It also coordinates with women in national peasants apos guilds.

homes connected (SONED network and rural engineering)

In some rural areas, the Internet is important for agricultural information, as well as being particularly useful for the purposes of agricultural production technologies and pricing.

TPN 2 on agroforestry has completed its draft manual on dryland agro forestry.

For TPN 2 on agroforestry and soil conservation

By the end of 2006, the number of rural netizens in China was twenty three million one hundred thousand, showing that in six months a total of fourteen million, three hundred thousand rural Chinese got online.

WMS and WCS are provided through the FAO GeoNetwork, an Internet based spatial information catalogue.

This initiative was supported by SANE Asia

In addition, a series of technical papers on various aspects of rural ageing was published on the FAO website.

FAO also operates the Asian Bio Net, financed by the Government of Japan.

National coordinator of the Women apos s Network of the National Union of Independent Regional Rural Organizations

FAO is also actively participating in the UNU INFOODS project.

(c) An SANE advocacy workshop on the theme quot Food security through sustainable agriculture quot Bangkok.

Data on off farm income and linkages in agricultural development have also been collected and analysed for several economies.

The organizations and groups promoting women apos s organizations as such have made progress in the rural sectors (ANMUCIC) and in the formation of federations of organizations, for example the National Women apos s Network and the National Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

The Centro para el Desarrollo Agrícola y Forestal (CEDAF) organized the fifth meeting of the Technical Cooperation Network on Plant Biotechnology, which was followed by a Rice Route field day.

The regional commissions will work closely with private Internet and network operators in the individual host countries to determine the sustainability, costs and optimal modes of operation (public, private or mixed) of ICT based rural networks for rural communities.

Within the framework of a project that also involves the Union of Businesswomen to maintain the village, work has gotten under way to create a rural women's electronic network.

At present the Network has offices in 25 of the country apos s federative entities, and it has established direct contacts with more than 250,000 rural women.

The reports of these meetings can be accessed through the FAO Fisheries Department website at www.fao.org fi.

The Network has also developed a strategy of establishing links with young people of rural origin who are studying in the agriculture technology education system and with teachers in rural areas, as a means of encouraging the Countryside Teacher Alliance.

Fourth, the countryside should be provided with machinery through financing, leasing and the setting up of a network of inter farm centres of machinery, technology and leasing services.

By the end of June 2006, the number of netizens in rural China had reached three million, seven hundred and forty one thousand, making up 5.1 of the total rural population.

TPN 6 on sustainable agriculture was launched in November 2004, back to back with an inter regional meeting on agroforestry.

i) a permanent network of representative sites based on agro ecological homogeneity

For example, in the area of rural development and food security, ACC in April 1997 endorsed the proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to establish the ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security to replace the former ACC Subcommittee on Rural Development.

144. Coordination of the technical cooperation network for organizations and institutions for the promotion of rural women, sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and comprising public, private and technical cooperation bodies.

A facilitating environment for livelihood activities, agricultural production and the re establishment of rural trading networks has contributed to conditions for sustained, broad based poverty reducing growth.

176. A survey carried out among NGOs that make up the Network for Rural Women as well as those NGOs that, without being part of this Network, engage in activities involving rural women, has provided a general picture of the nature of their activities.

This initiative is part of an experimental evaluation website, IFADEVAL, which provides 62 lessons learned from the various field projects, including credit and rural financial services, farm technology generation and institutional frameworks for project implementation.

In countries lacking appropriate bank networks, particularly in rural areas, governments could consider the establishment of partnerships between leading banks and post office networks.

KRUS functions through a network of regional branches and local units.

In Chile and Mexico, electronic information networks have been developed to provide farmers with production and marketing information.

Pada tahun 1988, para ahli konservasi memutuskan akan membiayai dan membuat sebuah pagar listrik untuk melindungi area Taman Nasional Aberdare yang berbatasan dengan lahan pertanian skala kecil. Pagar tersebut dirancang untuk menghindari penyusupan dari populasi manusia dan berkurangnya habitat taman nasional tersebut.

The FAO provided training to the staff of the host organizations and to farmers, and the latter are able to access locally relevant information which is disseminated to the network of users.