文档介绍：本科毕业论文外文翻译
外文题目:RURAL NON-FARM E IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
出处: Zhongguo shehui kexue, 1999 , no. 2
作者: Tom Reardon
译文:
INTRODUCTION
The traditional image of farm households in developing countries has been that they focus almost exclusively on farming and undertake little rural non-farm (RNF) This image persistsand is widespread even today. Policy debate still tends to equate farm e with rural es, and rural/urban relations with farm/non-farm relations. Industry Ministries have thus focused on urban industry and Ministries of Agriculture on farming, and there has been a tendency even among agriculturists and those interested in rural development to neglect the RNF sector. Nevertheless, there is mounting evidence that RNF e (. e derived in this sector from wage-paying activities and self-employment merce, manufacturing and other services) is an important resource for farm and other rural households, including the landless poor as well as rural town residents. Although this source accounts for only part of total off-farm e (which also includes farm wages and migration earnings), this chapter focuses on RNF e so as to enable a closer examination of what can be done within rural areas themselves to increase overall economic activity and employment. There are several reasons why the promotion of RNF activity can be of great interest to developing country policy-ma