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Barbieri, Carla; Mahoney, Edward – Journal of Rural Studies, 2009
State agencies have been encouraging the development of different enterprises to diversify farm incomes in an effort to retain farmers in business, attract new entrants to agriculture and promote regional development. Entrepreneurship and farming are known to be driven by a complex set of goals including those which are economic and intrinsic in…
Descriptors: Income, Quality of Life, Factor Analysis, Agriculture
Madden, J. Patrick – 1977
The land grant universities have, for the most part, performed the organizational and procedural processes stipulated by Title V of the Rural Development Act of 1972 and have succeeded in helping rural people satisfy high priority needs, thereby demonstrating that Title V is a valid approach to rural development. The three-year pilot period,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Employment, Federal Legislation, Federal Regulation