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Hiroya Masuda, author of Japanese report on rural depopulation. [7] Post-World War II rural flight has been caused primarily by the spread of industrialized agriculture. Small, labor-intensive family farms have grown into, or have been replaced by, heavily mechanized and specialized industrial farms. While a small family farm typically produced ...
Rural poverty refers to situations where people living in non-urban regions are in a state or condition of lacking the financial resources and essentials for living. It takes account of factors of rural society, rural economy, and political systems that give rise to the marginalization and economic disadvantage found there. [1]
The rural population is defined by size of place under 2500 and includes non-farmers living in villages and the open countryside. At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000.
Adding 200 new residents to each of Indiana's rural counties for the next 15 years would erase decades of population loss, the authors contend.
Johnson, the demographer, said for decades most of the rural decline was driven by rural areas not growing as fast as urban ones, until 2010 to 2020 when the size of the rural population actually ...
The population decline has been broadly attributed to numerous factors, especially changes in agricultural practices, rapid improvements in urban transit and regional connectivity, and a declining rural job market, pushed in part by the 1980s farm crisis.
(The Center Square) – Since the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic migration in Michigan has been driving rural population growth. While urban counties and the state overall saw a decline in population ...
The poem is written in heroic couplets, and describes the decline of a village and the emigration of many of its residents to America. In the poem, Goldsmith criticises rural depopulation, the moral corruption found in towns, consumerism, enclosure, landscape gardening, avarice, and the pursuit of wealth from international trade. The poem ...