NCRCRD (North Central Regional Center of Rural Development)

08AR	2008 Annual Report
07AR	2007 Annual Report
06AR	2006 Annual Report
05AR	2005 Annual Report
191	From the Ground Up: Growing Entrepreneurship in the North Central Region
190	From Ripples to Waves: The Rural Community College Initiative to Build New Partnerships in Support of America's Rural Communities
189	Iowa Meat Processors' Resource Guidebook: A Guide to Building, Upgrading or Expanding a Small Meat Processing Facility in Iowa
188	Women, Land, and Legacy: Results from the Listening Sessions
187	Rebuilding Hope, Reclaiming History and Culture, Restoring Health: Stories of Success from Tribal and Native-serving Colleges
186	Community Economic Analysis: A How To Manual
185	Native American Business Participation in E-Commerce: An Assessment of Technical Assistance and Training Needs
182	Vision to Action: Take Charge Too
181	Social Indicators: An Annotated Bibliography on Trends, Souces and Developoments. 1960-1998
180S	Midiendo el Éxito y La Sustentabilidad de La Comunidad: Un libro de Trabajo Interactivo
180	Measuring Communty Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook
179	Post-Industrial Rural Development: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
174	Transportation Action: A Local Input Model to Engage Community Transportation Planning
172	The Economics of Population Settlement: Cost of Alternative Growth Patterns
170	Community Visioning/Strategic Planning Programs: State of the Art
167	A Research Agenda for Studying Rural Public Service Delivery Alternatives in the North Central Region
164	Leadership: Sustaining Action on Community and Organizational Issues
163	Partners in Community Leadership: Youth and Adults Working Together for Better Communities
161	Multicommunty Collaboration: An Evolving Rural Revitalization Strategy, Conference Proceedings
155	Visual Merchandising: A Guide for Small Retailers
148	Operational and Strategic Planning in Small Business
FS	Moving from Scattered Projects to Strategic Community Development: Where is the Forest Service and its Partners?

Rural Development News

Vol. 20, No. 1
Measuring Rural Development: Why Not Just Count Jobs?

Vol. 20, No. 2
Creating Self-Reliant Households and Communities

Vol. 20, No. 3
The National Rural Development Partnership: Building Sustainable Communities of Interest

Vol. 21, No. 1
Enhancing Community Capitals: The Optimization Equation

Vol. 21, No. 2
Building Social Capital: The Importance of Entrepreneurial Social Infrastructure

Vol. 21, No. 3
Innovations in Community Development

Vol. 21, No. 4
Innovations in Community Development (Part 2)

Vol. 22, No. 1
Performance Based Measurement and Community Building

Vol. 22, No. 2
Skills for the 21st Century: Relation-Building

Vol. 22, No. 3
Community Building for a Healthy Ecosystem

Vol. 22, No. 4
Quality of Life versus Standard of Living

Vol. 23, No. 2
NCRCRD Grant Used to Leverage $2.5 Million Project

Vol. 23, No. 3
Dimensions of the Rural Population

Vol. 23, No. 4
Data Available From “Other” Censuses

Vol. 24, No. 2
Market, State and Civil Society: Creating Advocacy Action Coalitions for Rural Development

Vol. 24, No. 3
Extension and Place: Reducing Transaction Costs for Better Communities

Vol. 24, No. 4
Poverty Reduction and Rural Development

Vol. 25, No. 1
Leadership Development: Investing in a Critical Community Asset

Vol. 25, No. 2
Water, Land and People Working Together – The NCRCRD’s New Look

Vol. 25, No. 3
Social Capital is Critical, Even in State of High Alert

Vol. 25, No. 4
The 2002 Farm Bill and Sustainable Rural Communities

Vol. 26, No. 1
Will Agricultural Policy Adequately Address Rural Development Challenges?

Vol. 26, No. 2
How Do We Know We Are Effective?

Vol. 26, No. 3
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Evaluating Multi-Level Collaboration for Systems Change

Vol. 26, No. 4
Using Social Science to Affect Community Change

Vol. 27, No. 1
Child Poverty in the Rural North Central Region

Vol. 27, No. 2
The Triple Bottom Line: A Viable Strategy for Rural Development

Vol. 27, No. 3
Agricultural Change and Rural Development

Vol. 28, No. 1
Economic Restructuring and Outsourcing in the North Central Region

Vol. 28, No. 2
Information Technology Critical as Rural and Remote Areas Transition to the New Economy

Vol. 28, No. 3
Immigrants as Assets

Vol. 28, No. 4
Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made?

Vol. 29, No. 1
Fairness and Resources: The Community Development Tragedy of Earmarks

Special 25th Anniversary Edition

Reports

• Bregendahl, Corry and Cornelia Butler Flora. 2006. The Role of Collaborative Community Supported Agriculture: Lessons from Iowa. Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. (PDF format, 632 kb)

• Bregendahl, Corry and Cornelia Butler Flora. 2006. Research Brief: Results from Iowa's Collaborative CSA Member Survey. Ames, IA: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. (PDF format, 272 kb)

Community Capitals project: http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/projects/commcap/7capitals.htm

Flora, C.B. and J.L.  Flora. 2008. Rural Communities: Legacy and Change. (3rd Edition) Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Flora, C.B. M. Livingston, I. Honyestewa and H. Koiyaquaptewa  2009. “Understanding Access and Use of Traditional Food by Hopi Women.”  Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition  4: 158-71.

Flora, C.B. and A. Gillespie. 2009. “Making Healthy Choices to Reduce Childhood Obesity:  Community Capitals and Food and Fitness”  Community Development:  Journal of the Community Development Society. 40: 1-9.

Flora, C.B.  2008. “Social capital and community problem solving: Combining local and scientific knowledge to fight invasive species.” Learning Communities: International Journal of Learning in Social Contexts (Australia), & Kritis: Journal of interdisciplinary development studies (Indonesia). BIOSECURITY BILINGUAL MONOGRAPH, pp. 41-54.

Mulale, K. and C.B. Flora. 2006. “The Creation of Social Capital through Networks in Botswana’s CBNRM.” South African Geographical Journal 88(2): 150–158.

Flora, C.B., C. Bregendahl and S. Fey. 2007. “Mobilizing Internal and External Resources for Rural Community Development.” Pp. 210-220 in Knutson, R.D., S.D. Knutson, and D.P. Ernstes (eds.) Perspectives on 21st Century Agriculture: A Tribute to Walter J. Armbruster. Chicago, IL: The Farm Foundation.

Flora, C.B. 2007. “Theoretical Framework for Participatory Rural Development: The Role of the Public University.” Pp. 45-55  R. F. González Sánchez and M. A. Barrón Pérez (eds.) Experiencias de desarrollo rural – Dos visiones de vinculación universitaria:  Colima y Iowa. Colima, México: Universidad de Colima and Ames, IA: Iowa State University.