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Agriculture & rural development questions.

Agriculture & rural development questions.

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# Question
1
  1. Define the concept of sustainable developement
  2. Economic system is the central component in sustainable development. Explain the validity of this argument.
  3. (i) Define the term livelihood

(ii)Explain three (3) insights underpinning the sustainable livelihood approach/ framework.


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2

Match the items from list A to the most appropriate items in list B.

LIST A LIST B
  1. Priotize industrial investment over agricultural sector development
  1. Urban bias, failure of trickle-down effect annd poor investment in agriculture
  2. Rural development
  3. Green revolution
  4. Inntegrated rural development approach
  5. Sustainable livelihood approach
  6. Gender and environmental sustainability
  7. Transforming farming practices in rural societies
  8. Basic needs
  9. Development

 

  1. Among the areas of concerns under rural development
  2. More coherent and integrated approach to poverty reduction.
  3. Rural development policies of 1950s and 1960s
  4. Emergence an era of interventions inn 1970s
  5. Call for qualitative and quantitative measurements.
  6. Imply discipline, process and sometimes strategy
  7. Materials and non-materials
  8. Nickname given to technology and strategy for agricultural development
  9. Objective of rural development
  10. Improving coordination and acknowledging multidimensionality of rural development
  11. Reducing cost for project implementation
  12. Focusing more on shocks and vulnerability

 


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3

Explain the rationale behind development of basic needs approach.


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4

Most rural development approaches adopted by developing countries in 1960s to late 1980s were claimed to be top downn and brought limited development in rural areas. Using relevant examples discuss five (5) reasons for their failures.


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5

Climate change implies that the attainment of agricultural development would become even more difficult to attain. In view of this, explain the possibility and practicability of attaining agricultural development under climate channge in Tanzania.


Long answers
6

Strong and effective local institutions are corner stones for rural development. Using five(5) local institutions of your choice, discuss the validity of this statement with respect to rural Tanzania.


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7
  1. Discuss the reasons for the envisaged promising performance of the RIPAT approach to agricultural development.
  2. Explain the potential challenges to widespread of RIPAT approach.

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