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 ...

This research combines perspectives from behavioral science and engineering to 1) describe the decision-making process of rural latrine owners and pit emptiers in low-income communities, with the goal ...

Discussion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in rural America requires an understanding of how rural America is defined in federal, state, local, and societal terms ...

Khalida Bouzar is Director of the Division of Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia at the International Fund for Agricultural Development. 5 April 2016 April 2015, No. 4 Vol. LII, ...

BEIJING, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by China.org.cn: A collection of case studies highlighting best poverty alleviation and rural development practices that have been implemented in ...

South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to push back rising poverty levels. The country’s poverty levels ...

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: ...

Ranchi: The Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS) mobilised around 34 lakh rural families across the state, officials said during a state-level workshop, themed on ‘Strengthening Tribal ...