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Rural development was synonymous with agricultural development and, hence environmentally, safe livingconditions, and reduction in gender and income inequalities. Women’s active contribution in agricultural growth has beenpromoted and many recent agricultural extension projects have been making efforts to increase women farmers’participation; (Saito and Weidemann, 1990; Stuart, 1994). Sustainable rural development can be contextualized to threetypes of region: periurban, productive agricultural lowland, and economic periphery. A range of indicators confirm thecontemporary absence of sustainable agriculture and rural development in Europe, although the constraints on sustainabledevelopment vary among the three types of rural region. Sustainable rural development can no longer be equated solely withagricultural development in rural regions, and a new balance is being sought between farming and restructuring economiesand societies. A distinction can be drawn between top-down and bottom-up processes in the promotion of sustainabledevelopment, with networks of institutions in rural regions playing an increasingly influential role. However, state policies topromote sustainability in rural regions are commonly overridden by other policy imperatives concerned with economicgrowth and global competition.

Neelam Jaiswal, Shwati Pardhi, Abhay Bisen, “Role of Women in Sustainable Rural Development”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 15, pp. -, January 2017.