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ajoaa-574	Akpan , Nseabasi S	Rural Development Practice in Nigeria: How Participatory and What Challenges?	2012	15	.pdf	application/pdf	7811	334	32	However, its relevance as a people- centered development approach was rediscovered in the 1970s in response to the rising awareness that previous approaches and practices of rural development did less to incorporate and empower local voices as well as placing them at the centre of local development initiatives. The world conference on agrarian reform and rural development (WCARRD-Rome, 1979) fundamentally contributed in pushing participatory rural development to the frontline of development practice in the 1980s and 1990s when it declared participation by rural people in the institutions that govern their lives as a basic human right: „if rural development was to realize its potential, disadvantaged rural people had to be organized and actively involved in designing policies and programmes and in controlling social and economic institutions.	cache/ajoaa-574.pdf	txt/ajoaa-574.txt