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This research aimed mainly to identify the Farmers Knowledge level of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production and their sources of information about it in some Villages in Al-Buhera governorate. The study was carried out for achieving following: 1-To identify objectives some characteristics of the respondents. 2- To identify the farmers knowledge level of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production. 3-To identify the farmers sources of information about the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production. 4- Study the correlations between the degree of farmers knowledge of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production and some of the independent variables. 5- Study the correlations between the degree of the farmers sources of information about the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production and their benefit of it and some of the independent variables. The data was obtained to achieve the objective of the research through a questionnaire through the personal interview with a 150 Farmers. Data were analyzed statistically by using percentages, means, standard deviation, Intermediate class, and person correlation, Chi-square, by using (SPSS) program. The main results were as follows: 1- 59.3% from respondents are on the low and medium knowledge level of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production. 2- Nearly three quarters of the respondents 74.7% fall into the low and middle in the degree of exposed to information sources about the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production. 3- There are a positive correlation between the degree of farmers knowledge of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production and the following variables: education level, social status, degree of realness for renewal, communicative activity, knowledge of the causes of climate changes, knowledge of general appearances of climate changes, the degree of exposure to information sources and benefit from it. 4- There are a positive correlation between the degree of exposure to information sources and benefit from it and the following variables: social status, regenerative, communicative activity, knowledge of the causes of climate changes, knowledge of general appearances of climate changes, degree of farmers knowledge of the negative effects of climate change on Agricultural production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research aimed to determine the degree of knowledge of the rural women respondents about the social, economic, and legislative requirements to empower them in society, the degree of importance of these requirements, the relationship of the characteristics of the respondents to the degree of knowledge and importance of these requirements in general, and the obstacles to empowering rural women. The research was conducted on 180 female respondents from the village of Menouf locality, affiliated to the center of Tanta, Gharbia Governorate, and the questionnaire was used to collect field data during the months of March and April 2022, using frequencies, percentages, weighted average, simple correlation coefficient and chi-square test to analyze the data statistically. They are the results: - The increase in the respondents' knowledge of the social, economic and legislative requirements for their empowerment, as their percentage in the high level category reached 82.2%, 68.9%, 53.3%, respectively. - Low opinion of respondents on the importance of social, economic, and legislative requirements for their empowerment, as their percentage in the category of high level of importance reached 29.4%, 26.1%, 20%, respectively. - There is a direct correlation between the variables: the size of agricultural holdings, marital compatibility, cultural openness, membership in organizations, self-confidence of the respondents and the degree of their overall knowledge of the studied requirements. - There is a direct correlation between the variables of agricultural holding size, marital compatibility, and the respondents' opinion on the importance of requirements in general. - There is a significant relationship between the variables of marital status, the husband's education, the practical status of the husband and wife, the social status of the family, and the respondents' knowledge of the requirements in general, and their opinion of the importance of these requirements. The most important obstacles to empowering women are the misunderstanding of religious matters with regard to women's rights, the state's neglect of rural women for many years, and the bias towards males at the expense of females in everything. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is mainly aiming to study Rural youth Attitudes Toward Agricultural Work And participate in Rural environment services activities, this will be achieved through the following objectives: 1. Studying some socio, economic, psychological and communication variables of the researched rural youth. 2. Identifying studied rural youth attitudes Toward Agricultural Work. 3. Identifying studied rural youth participate in Rural environment services activities. 4. Identifying the variables correlated and Affecting with the rural youth Attitudes Toward Agricultural Work and participate in Rural environment services activities. Data was collected using a questionnaire through personal interview for a random sample of 150 subjects, the study used number of statistical methods including percentages, means, frequencies, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, simple correlation, and multiple regression analysis. The most important results are summarized as follows: • About (47.1%) of the variance in the rural youth Attitudes Toward Agricultural Work can be explained by (5) independent variables " immigration Readiness (28.6%), Perceived work opportunities (6.9%), Family belonging (4.4%), Possession of agricultural land (4.4%), and perceive village problems (2.8%)". • About (75.9%) of the variance in the rural youth Attitudes Toward participate in activities to preserve the rural environment can be explained by (6) independent variables "Educational level (41.1), Family belonging (23.0%), social family position (5.6%), respondent's age (4.0%), Possession of farm animals (1.3%), and Number of Family Members (0.9%)". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]