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emphasised, with attention paid to programmes that enhances rural households' control
of productive assets (land, physical assets, and all the factors of production), improve the
quality of human capital (provision of education to secondary level, knowledge on technical
aspects) and, promote a highly productive rural non-farm sector.
Policies aimed at improving rural households successful participation in activities of their
choice must be supported by provision of adequate capacity and an adequate institutional
environment for the rural households. They must seek to promote the mobilization
not only of capital, human and institutional resources, but also capacities, relationships
and knowledge needed to initiate, develop and conduct new types of projects in the
secondary and tertiary sectors such as agro-processing, provision of services, recreation,
and environmental services.
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