1. Unit 2: People and the Planet Topic: Changing Countryside
What are the issues facing rural areas in both developed and developing countries?
- How might these issues be resolved sustainably?

2. What are the issues facing rural areas?
Developed Nations
Developing Nations
What are the issues facing rural areas?

3. What are the issues facing rural areas?
Developed Nations
Pressure to expand
Rural depopulation
Tourism
Limited housing
Lack of services
Rural-urban fringe
Developing Nations
Isolation
Depopulation
Economic Decline
Lack of services
Health HIV/AIDS
What are the issues facing rural areas?

4. What are the issues facing rural areas?
Some rural areas in developing countries face a number of challenges such as isolation, depopulation and economic decline, whilst others in the developed world face pressures to expand. These challenges often reflect change taking place away from the rural area for example in the global economy or in urban areas.

5. Spiral of rural decline in the developing world
Rural-urban migration
Very old and young left behind
Neglect of farming
Less food produced
Food and economic insecurity

6. Spiral of rural decline in the developed world
Rural-urban migration
Employers find it difficult to find labour
Closure of local businesses
Less money – closure of local services
People become dissatisfied with worsening quality of living

7. This photograph was taken in rural Malawi
This photograph was taken in rural Malawi. What issues may these women face living here?

8. Above is a cartoonist’s view of one problem facing rural villages in the UK. Explain the problem the cartoon suggests the village is facing.

9. Developing Country Case Study: Malawi
Tasks:
1. Describe in your own words the location of Malawi
2. Produce a fact file for Malawi
3. Make a large copy of the table to explain why rural areas are poorer than urban
Statement
Reasons for this
Why this makes rural people poorer
Health facilities are poor
Few children go to secondary school
Few rural people have phones
It takes a long time to reach towns