Knowledge management for sustainable rural development

Today sustainable rural development programmes have become more complex. The consultants and managers of rural development projects need specific knowledge. The benevolent environment that expands the capabilities for the successful collaboration of rural inhabitants should be created for the favourable rural development knowledge management that identifies and closes knowledge gaps. The integration of the rural development strategies together with the knowledge management strategies help the rural production, business and public organizations and the groups of village inhabitants to straightly adapt to the changing environment and increase their intellectual capital. This paper deals with the role of the knowledge management for the improvement of the sustainable rural development. It presents the framework of rural development knowledge management which can help to utilize the knowledge management concepts for the rural development. It also shows how the alignment of the knowledge management strategy with the rural development strategies can bring to the more effective management of the sustainable rural developmentVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij