text: a videotape of -voung people discusging these thetues ia envisaged. The air0 ls to encourage young people to participate in varlous aspects of developnEnt acttvltyearlier in life. Of Particular lnterest ls the attenpt to involve llliterat,f adalrural youth, rdho are abl€ to articulate thelr ideaE verbally through the nediun of video and sound cassettes, 36. The United Nationa Centre for ',tu|r|an Settleients (Habitat] has deve loped aposter on youth and housing, and tt uill further publlclze lhe Inlernatlonal Youth Year in it€ newsletter, Habitat Ness. C. Speciallzed agenciee 37. fn preparing for the fnternatlonal Youth Year, the Food and AgrlcultureOrganization of the United Natlon6 (FAO) undertook a geries of studies to deternlnethe needs of rural. youth as perceived by youth eorkers and rural youth themselveg. The resPondents $ere also asked to auggest solutiona to the problens identlficd.In additlon, national rural youth leaders are betng identl.fled to serve as foc.rl Points in each of the developlng countrie8 for tbe purpoEe of establishing anlnternatlonal connun icat lon netrork of rural youth. FAo has coftll.ssioned lhedeveLopnent of a "Handbook for ttorklng and the organr,zation has been actively prcParaClons for the Year.^/40/63rEng1l stt Page lI \dith rural youtb ln ilerreloping countries" represented in regional neetings on 38. the joint publication of FAO, the united Nations Educatlonal, sclentific and cultural organtzation (uNEsco) and the Internatlonal Labour organisation (II,o), Trainlng for Agrlculture and Rura-L-P:.ve19Pgenl., is edited by FAo and t{ill have 6 I"--IDE S ' --btte issue nilr ad'lress several topics iehtea to youth and will present exanples of uork that is currently beioq carrie'l out tn different parts of the {orld. In 1985, tno editions of the FAO newsletter on rural youth sere produced, artl additional informatlon was dlstrib'rte'l ro tbe national focal points for rural youth. The nessletter provides contributors an
analysis: The text appears to be focused on the International Youth Year and its initiatives, particularly in the areas of rural youth development, education, and employment. The language used suggests a focus on development, youth empowerment, and international cooperation, which leads me to hypothesize that the text is primarily related to economic development and education.