Education for Rural Development Elliot Compton

Elliot Compton is director of Community Outreach Services for the Rural Business and Cooperative Development Service. He has over 14 years of teaching, training, research and consulting experience in the areas of agricultural and rural development, and natural resource economics and management. He has coordinated and conducted several research and consultancy projects funded by national and international agencies. A prolific writer, he has published over 86 articles and papers in professional journals of repute and authored/coauthored twelve books, including a textbook Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management, An Review of Rural Development Education, entitled Environmental Economics, etc.