The blog highlights and summarizes a policy brief written by Catherine Brinkley, an associate professor of Human Ecology and Director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis, and M. Anne Visser, ...
Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...
How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...
A number of commitments to help bring modern and reliable energy services to impoverished rural communities were announced by UNDP, WHO, the Alliance for Rural Electrification and several other ...
IFAD and India launch an 8-year strategy to boost rural incomes, climate resilience, and share development models globally.
The Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program (AREDP) has improved employment opportunities and income of target rural dwellers in Afghanistan. The program supports rural poor people by: ...
About 8.3 million people living in Kenya’s rural areas farm to feed themselves. They typically have just a few acres of land and depend on rain to grow their crops. This makes them extremely ...
Across Latin America, about 20% of the population lives in rural areas. In countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, and Panama, that proportion approaches one-third. In Brazil — the region’s largest country — ...
Seaweed and grouper culture sustain communities in MPAs assisted by the Philippine Rural Development Project. Photo courtesy of the Philippine Rural Development Project. Launched in 2014, Philippines ...
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