Covers the declaration and recommendations adapted at an international forum on the role of workers' organizations and education in rural development. First presents the declaration, which includes purpose of development and the role of organizations, trade unions, rural organizations, workers education, and adult education. It then presents the…

Discusses the need for and the difficulties in providing rural development and education programs for rural workers in Latin America and suggests linking adult education with community associative enterprises. Low income rural workers maintain membership by contributing their work to the enterprise and receive goods according to their…

Members of the farm related population generally lag behind their nonfarm related counterparts in the number of school years completed, number of persons completing high school and college, functional literacy rates, participants in adult education, and labor force status. In 1975 White farm males trailed metro and nonmetro nonfarm males by 1.2…