Number: RL31598
Title: Value-Added Agricultural Enterprises in Rural Development Strategies
Authors: Tadlock Cowan, Visiting Scholar, Resources, Science and Industry Division 
Abstract: This report provides an overview of rural American in the 1990s and some of the socioeconomic issues facing contemporary rural areas. It discusses the role of agriculture in the rural economy and implications of the value-chains beginning to shape the contemporary structure of agriculture. It assesses the characteristics and potential of the more prominent value-added agricultural production systems as strategies for rural economic development.
Pages: 42
Date: Updated October 8, 2002