{"id":61581,"date":"2020-02-18T13:04:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=61581"},"modified":"2020-02-18T13:04:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T08:04:19","slug":"pak-australia-sign-mou-regional-rural-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-australia-sign-mou-regional-rural-transformation.html","title":{"rendered":"Pak, Australia sign MoU for regional rural transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the Economic Affairs Division on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mou-signed-to-promote-trade-between-pakistan-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MoU) (opens in a new tab)\">MoU)<\/a> of AUD 1.2 million for regional rural transformation in the country, according to news sources. The regional countries included in this project are Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Indonesia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-govt-invites-australian-firms-to-invest-in-thar-coal-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Sindh govt invites Australian firms to invest in Thar Coal project (opens in a new tab)\">Sindh govt invites Australian firms to invest in Thar Coal project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On behalf of their respective\norganisations and governments, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ACIAR Prof Andrew\nCampbell and Acting Secretary Economic Affairs Division Ahmad Hanif Orakzai\ninked the subsidiary agreement on \u201cunderstanding the drivers of successful and\ninclusive rural regional transformation and sharing experience and policy\nadvice\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the official press release, the initiative is aimed at understanding the nature, consequences and divers of rural transformation in the aforementioned countries, and is expected to take three years to complete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/australian-investors-invited-explore-opportunities-balochistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Australian Investors invited to explore opportunities in Balochistan (opens in a new tab)\">Australian Investors invited to explore opportunities in Balochistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural transformation concerns\nitself with analysing the evolution of agricultural systems over time, and\ntheir states of commercialisation from subsistence and market-oriented farming\npractice arrangements. The countries engaged in this project are currently at\nvarious stages of this \u2018evolution\u2019 \u2013 and have registered varying outcomes based\non their respective developmental paces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data reveals the rural\npopulation share to be the highest in Bangladesh (65%), followed by Pakistan\n(61%), Indonesia (46%), and China (43%); with the average share for developing\ncountries globally tied at the 58% mark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, Pakistan\u2019s expanding\nurbanisation is pressuring its land, labour and other resources to yield higher\nproductivity; with this project being geared to study the Chinese rural\ntransformation model and analyse its results for other countries (faced by the\nsimilar challenges) to derive lessons from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the Economic Affairs Division on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) of AUD 1.2 million for regional rural transformation in the country, according to news sources. The regional countries included in this project are Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Read: Sindh govt invites Australian firms to invest in Thar Coal project On behalf of their respective organisations and governments, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ACIAR Prof Andrew Campbell and Acting Secretary Economic Affairs Division Ahmad Hanif Orakzai inked the subsidiary agreement on \u201cunderstanding the drivers of successful and inclusive rural regional transformation and sharing experience and policy advice\u201d. According to the official press release, the initiative is aimed at understanding the nature, consequences and divers of rural transformation in the aforementioned countries, and is expected to take three years to complete. Read: Australian Investors invited to explore opportunities in Balochistan Rural transformation concerns itself with analysing the evolution of agricultural systems over time, and their states of commercialisation from subsistence and market-oriented farming practice arrangements. The countries engaged in this project are currently at various stages of this \u2018evolution\u2019 \u2013 and have registered varying outcomes based on their respective developmental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":60408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,15020,15153],"tags":[19870,19872,19871,19874,19873],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-social-developments","9":"category-trade","10":"tag-australia-sign-mou-for-regional-rural-transformation","11":"tag-international-projects","12":"tag-pak-australia","13":"tag-rural-development","14":"tag-rural-transformation","15":"cat-15012-id","16":"cat-15020-id","17":"cat-15153-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pak, Australia sign MoU for regional rural transformation - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Economic Affairs Division on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) of AUD 1.2 million for regional rural transformation in the country\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-australia-sign-mou-regional-rural-transformation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pak, Australia sign MoU for regional rural transformation - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Economic Affairs Division on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) of AUD 1.2 million for regional rural transformation in the country\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-australia-sign-mou-regional-rural-transformation.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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