| dc.description.abstract | Rural poverty is a concept of deprivation of basic needs in the rural area which is a geographic area located outside cities and towns. In order to have a long term solution to such a deprivation of needs in rural human being, Non-Farm-Opportunities would be sustainable strategies. Although for last few decades, many subsidiary programs were introduced in order to alleviate rural poverty, still rural sector has poverty. However, there is a structural change in the rural sector due to either subsidiary programmes or free education system or Non-Farm Orientation. Hence, the objective of this review is to explore how Non-Farm-Opportunities have influenced on expanding the horizons of; income, consumption and standard of living in the rural sector to decrease rural poverty as identified by literature. Two hundred sixty nine (52) journal articles were referred for last 20 years in order to grasp the real gravity of NonFarm-Opportunities as poverty alleviation tools in the rural sector. The objectives guiding the analysis of literature were to; understand the relationship between income and poverty, identify the existing barriers in the field of rural Non-Farm-Opportunities and impact of lack of resources in rural sector to Non-Farm-Opportunities, identify the impact of education to Non-FarmOpportunities, discuss the relationship among education, human development and rural agricultural productivity and to observe the employability of rural youth as NonFarm-Opportunities. This review is instigated by searching key academic databases using relevant search questions. The literature suggests that there is a positive relationship between Non-Farm-Opportunities of the rural and the level of rural poverty. | en_US |
