Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could a¤ect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze the e¤ect of di¤erential warming trends across countries on the probability of either migrating out of t...

This study examined how the terms used to describe climate change influence landholder acceptability judgements and attitudes toward climate change at the local scale. Telephone surveys were conducted with landholders from viticultural (n = 97) or cereal growing (n = 195) backgrounds in rural South Australia. A variety of descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine the influence...

Developing countries account for about 86.5% of the world’s population and are experiencing rapid urbanization. Globally, increase in urban is generally accompanied by expansion latter construction lands, as well reduction rural lands. However, with development urbanization China, has decreased, while proportion lands increased, resulting a significant waste land resources. In order to quantita...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Evidence suggests that rural experiences can positively influence students' preferences for rural practice. This study examined changes in students' perceptions toward rural primary care following a required rural clerkship. METHODS Third-year students completed pre- and post-clerkship questionnaire items assessing their beliefs about primary care physicians who prac...

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) acknowledges climate change as one of the factors affecting rural poverty and as one of the challenges it needs to address. While climate change is a global phenomenon, its negative impacts are more severely felt by poor people in developing countries who rely heavily on the natural resource base for their livelihoods. Agriculture and l...