When the harvest is in : developing rural entrepreneurship / edited by Shailendra Vyakarnam

Throughout the world rural communities face change. How can organizations and government schemes help rural entrepreneurs and communities adapt to change; and how can entrepreneurs use networks to help each other? In this collection of studies the contributors discuss the problems which beset rural communities as they attempt to develop non-farm production at the same time as ensuring a constant food supply.

In the UK many communities face the removal of crop subsidies and rising house prices; in the Soviet Union increasingly productive co operative farms have the potential for diversifying production and increasing employment; in the island communities of the Pacific the physical and social characteristics of these remote areas constrain entrepreneurship.

The examples cover many countries including India, Sri Lanka, the USSR, South Africa, England and Ireland, and although the communities described vary widely, much can be learned in one area by another country's solution.