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For example, agriculture and rural affairs have been combined under one ministry, as have all environmental issues.
Obama’s one new priority – to expand US support for African farmers – reflects a shrewd appreciation of how the expansion of agriculture can quickly lift many rural Africans out of poverty.
Much of the rural south is poorer and less educated than other parts of the US.
Nourishing Cities with NatureBOSTON – Ever since the ancient Greek poet Theocritus wrote his pastoral idylls romanticizing rural life, people have been pondering how to build cities that are in concert with their natural surroundings.
While cities will never replace rural areas as the world’s main source of nutrition, a higher percentage of food can be cultivated in urban areas.
Indeed, it is the world’s poor – particularly those in rural areas – that suffer the most from these combined factors.
Agricultural development efforts should, therefore, focus on promoting the growth and sustainability of smallholder farmers and small rural businesses.
A vibrant rural sector can generate demand for locally produced goods and services, thereby stimulating sustainable employment growth in agro-processing, services, and small-scale manufacturing.
Such opportunities would allow young people to thrive in their rural communities, rather than being forced to search for work in urban areas.
The fires were also a volcanic outburst of class hatred by the disenfranchised, rural and urban, against the Bangkok-based wealthy ruling class.
Thaksin’s rural development policies were clearly welcomed by people who, for the first time, felt connected to the leaders they had elected.
Biofuel technology kills four birds with one stone: It improves energy security, recycles waste, reduces greenhouse-gas emissions, and produces jobs (often in rural areas).
And the impact was greatest for people living in rural areas and small towns, where travel distances are typically longer and public transport is less available.
But sound economics should also have told us that there were bound to be losers as well as winners, with the losers – and potential populist voters – often concentrated in the same smaller towns and rural areas that form the backbone of the gilets jaunes movement.
Within ten years, shifting to more efficient electric cars will almost certainly reduce the costs of road transport, benefiting rural and small-town car owners even more than city dwellers.
Cars freed rural people from their isolation, and they gave city dwellers access to the countryside.
It suffers from the fact that most of its population lives in the rural interior, without paved roads to reach ports and facilitate access to international trade.
An even greater number use biomass for cooking, with over 90% of people in rural Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique using straw, dung, and firewood.
But the renewable-energy market is emerging far too slowly in Africa – especially when one considers that Bangladesh has delivered 3.5 million small photovoltaic systems to urban slums and poor rural areas over the last five years.
I have seen such solutions in the Millennium Villages in rural Africa, a project in which my colleagues and I are working with poor communities, governments, and businesses to find practical solutions to the challenges of extreme rural poverty.
Africa still has limited agro-processing activity and capacity in rural areas.
Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders.
For many Americans, especially in rural areas and in the southern states, this collective entitlement became akin to a God-given individual right.
The story of most Westerns is of a wide-open rural idyll, where man has found perfect autonomy, threatened by a state ruled by man-made laws.
The problem with the American myth is that this rural idyll of perfect individual liberty, this state of nature, as it were, cannot possibly be maintained in a highly organized state of banks, courts, business corporations, and legislatures.
In Africa, rural land is generally considered to be state-owned, and is treated by governments as if it were their own.
Hunger and malnutrition are not primarily the result of insufficient food production; they are the result of poverty and inequality, particularly in rural areas, where 75% of the world’s poor still reside.
And it could cause massive social disruptions in the world’s rural areas.
Cutting them would not only remove perverse incentives; it would also free up money for education, universal health care, and infrastructure in rural areas, where it is needed to create income opportunities.
In rural Iraq the tradition is that a person preferably should die at home with his or her family around.
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