Rural development course

Costa Rica: Where Environmentalism and Tourism Live in Harmony
TakePart
Starting in the 1990s, Costa Rica began an aggressive plan to develop its tourism industry in tandem with long-term sustainable-development goals. It set aside fully 26 percent of its … of the country depended on. Downstream users—farmers who need …

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Direct-Farm Sales May Boost Local Growth
Daily Yonder
“There has been a lot of hope, but little evidence, that local food systems can be an engine of economic growth in communities,” said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences and …

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