Subject(s): Rural development -- Agricultural Education -- Primary schooling -- Education and rural development : Transformation of rural context and new development agenda on rural poverty, contribution of education to rural development theoretical expectations, empirical evidence and past strategies -- Basic education in rural areas- status, issues and prospects : Basic education in rural areas today, improving provision of basic education in rural areas, planning and managing improvement to basic education in rural areas -- Making learning relevant- principles and evidence from recent experiences : Using students environment to enhance learning, revisiting garden based learning in schools -- Strategies and institutions for promoting skills for rural development : Rural labour/ labor market challenges and training policy responses, skills for agriculture and good security in sub Saharan Africa, skills development in rural Asia- trends and experiences in selected countries, towards demand responses to training needs in rural areas in Brazil -- Higher education and rural development : Higher education for rural development - challenges and opportunities for higher agricultural education, HAE, higher agricultural education institutions - lessons from five case studies -- main findings and implications for policy and donor support : Return to contextual issues - decline in rural support, policy implications