World Rural Development Day is an initiative of the United Nations (UN). Food is grown in rural communities, yet they are home to 80% of the world’s poorest people, who stand in the first line of food insecurity, climate shocks and migration pressures. Investing in rural communities makes for more resilient societies, better food security and can reduce international out-migration (1)
Details of this year’s campaign can be found at https://www.un.org/en/observances/rural-development-day
To mark the day we have assembled a display of books on various aspects of rural development, including community participation, development studies and guidelines and foreign aid.
The titles include:
Healthy villages : a guide for communities and community health workers / Guy Howard [et al]. – Geneva : WHO, 2002.
The Arnold companion to development studies / edited by Vandana Desai and Robert Potter. – London : Arnold, 2001.
The Community is my university :a voice from the grass roots on rural health development / Selina Maphorogo and Erika Sutter ; edited by Jennifer Jenkins.- Amsterdam : KIT, 2003.
Encountering development / the making and unmaking of the third world / Arturo Escobar. – Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012].
References
(1) From World Rural Development Day | United Nations, viewed 3 July 2026.
