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Local, state, international and/or private funds may work to help generate off-farm employment, new sources of economic growth, foster value-added enterprises and new commodities, encourage more sustainable use of resources, and subsidize the delivery of services, such as transport and health care. Resistance movements may go further and try to reorganize the urban/rural market system to provide greater profits to producers, reduce middlemen, or offer alternative high-paying crops (e.g. cocoa, opium, marijuana). Maintaining a viable rural population has been difficult in all nations because of price fluctuations paid for rural commodities, lack of adequate price supports and disaster relief or insurance, lower wages for service workers (e.g. doctors, teachers), rural social mores that demean women, fewer educational opportunities for children, and the feeling of isolation brought about by the media's glorification of urban life.
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Keywords
rural mobility, natural resource protection, sustainable resource use, land management, economic development, family farmers, sustainable rural economy, rural job creation, poverty eradication, services to rural communities, appropriate technology, farmer's rights
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