This category expands Category:Community development and Category:Rural development. It covers articles about efforts to improve the welfare and livelihoods of people living in rural areas.
This category includes articles on:
- organisations that advocate and support community organizing among farming families;
- approaches and methods used to stimulate rural community development, including activities that are carried out in the context of international development;
- protests and social movements, both historical and contemporary, in which rural people have organized themselves to tackle grievances relating to land ownership, taxation and access to markets;
- thinkers, writers and activists who have been prominent advocates of social and environmental issues while also being practicing farmers.