Training and rural development

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28/09/2006

The role that regional rural training institutions are called to play goes way beyond mere technical training for working in the rural environment. It also includes, for example, the actions concerned with rural population's effective exercise of their citizenship, health care of rural male and female workers, and the environment, research and technological development care to be incorporated in production activities, among others.
Rural training institutions have, in sum, a strategic role to play in the economic and social development of rural areas and countries in general. More >>

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