1. Towards a paradigm shift. In Search of an Appropriate Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Model WHY FOCUS ON RURAL INTERGRATED, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MODELS?
2. “ The Model Village Approach”, Is uniquely different, and it is aimed at, understanding the systems practiced in Africa. This development is an outcome of the absence of a unified and cohesive approach to enhance productivity of the agricultural systems practiced holistically to improve income, nutrition and food security through open distance learning (ODL) and face to face contact.
3. Open and Distance Learning Systems. There is enormous need to create an open or virtual learning extension network with resource centers and advisory services provided from multiple sources that allow extension workers and smallholders or marginal farmers to access information and training on demand.
4. Morphing Rural Community Development Models The Nexus between the Past and the Future By John C. Allen, Ph.D., Director, Western Rural Development Center Today, new models of rural economic development are emerging to deal with the changing landscape of rural economies. These models are linking past, current, and future strategies together as they attempt to provide rural communities an opportunity to create a new and invigorating future.
8. While the needs-based approach focuses on garnering external resources to solve problems, the alternative asset based approach looks for residents’ personal skills and dreams and links them to action through a public articulation of these local assets.
9. Economic Gardening Using local resources to grow their own jobs through entrepreneurial activity— Economic Gardening—instead of recruiting them from outside the community, or Economic Hunting. The idea evolved from work by Dr. David Birch at MIT who argued that a majority of all new jobs in any local economy were produced by small local businesses.
10. Core Elements of Economic Gardening 1) Providing information, infrastructure and connections for local growth companies; 2) Providing connections between industry and academia; 3) Focusing on quality of life and amenities.
11. 1 6 2 3 4 8 9 7 11 10 5 ITEM # Survey of land Holding/ Skills/ Requirements and detailed data Bank of facilities available. 1 Establish Appropriate Technology Centers 2 Determine Priorities, Prepare Budget & Working Plan 3 Identify Projects with community Establish Facilities Dissemination of Training Production Value Addition Marketing M&E Improved Livelihood, Raised Living Standards, Protected Environment 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
