2026-06-27http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/291430This report describes a participatory development methodology pioneered since 1982 by the FAO People's Participation Programme. FAO believes that the grassroots approach described here could energize a vast reservoir of human resources, providing developing countries with a key to generating rural employment, achieving food self-sufficiency, slowing the rural-urban exodus and building national self-reliance.8FAOBook (stand-alone)