Rural America
Strengthening Rural Communities
Rural people the world over, despite many differences, share one profound thing in common. By and large, they have been neglected by their own governments and by an international community that continues to ignore the catastrophic consequences of what this inaction has wrought.
Chronic hunger could be greatly impacted if governments sought to raise the incomes of the most vulnerable people. And where the most vulnerable reside typically is in rural areas of their countries. Rural people are always more likely to be hungry and poor than others in their country of every four hungry people in the world lives in a rural area. Here in the United States, the poorest places are usually rural areas cut off from economic opportunities and standard services most Americans take for granted.
The Bread for the World Institute 2005 Hunger Report: Strengthening Rural Communities focuses on these areas because these are where some of the greatest challenges—as well as the greatest potential—exist to reducing hunger.
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Strenthening Rural Communities has been divided into chapters to make download time shorter.
Table of Contents and Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Who are the Rural Poor?
Chapter 2: Why are So Many People in the Developing World Poor and Hungry?
Chapter 3: Rural America in Flux: Understanding Rural Poverty and Hunger in the United States
Chapter 4: Strengthening Rural Communities in the Developing World
Chapter 5: Strengthening Rural Communities in the United States
Chapter 6: The Way Forward
Chapter 7: What You Can Do
Endnotes, Tables, Glossary, Acronyms, Sponsors and Co-Sponsors
Study Guide
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