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As part of his government’s efforts “to construct a harmonious society,” a tax on agricultural produce was scrapped last year, while the State Council vowed to boost annual investment in rural infrastructure.
A small-scale farmer in rural Africa, for example, can now access weather forecasts and market prices at the tap of a screen.
Trump, Corporatism, and the Dearth of InnovationCHICAGO – In the United States, a domestic political shift from cosmopolitanism to nationalism, and from left-leaning metropolitan “elites” to right-leaning rural “populists,” seems, to many, to be underway.
A Virtuous Cycle for ConservationNEW YORK – Poor and rural people around the world rely on plants and animals for shelter, food, income, and medicine.
The CITES framework, combined with strong national conservation policies, can simultaneously protect wild species and benefit poor, rural, and indigenous people, by encouraging countries and communities to adopt sound environmental management plans.
Sustainable trade often depends on poor and rural communities conserving their own resources at the local level.
The biggest threats to the legal wildlife trade are poaching, smuggling, improper trade permitting, and animal abuse, all of which must be addressed by regulators and rural community stakeholders at the local level.
Fortunately, rural communities are already in the best position to protect wildlife, so long as they are motivated to do so.
To help with this, governments can increase rural communities’ resource- and wildlife-use rights so that they can manage and protect their natural resources sustainably.
As the examples above show, conservation and improved livelihoods for the rural poor are feasible, and even mutually reinforcing.
The resolution calls on the 182 CITES member countries to protect the interests of wildlife as well as to provide tangible benefits for the poor and rural communities.
Interventions like rural electrification, the provision of drought-resistant seeds and agricultural technology, and the expansion of micro-insurance are vital not only to rural populations’ welfare, but also to catalyze a new “Green Revolution,” without which city dwellers will face severe food shortages.
Rural people became mired in squalor.
At the moment, Afghanistan’s drug lords are prospering, and rural communities are suffering.
It is a country that spans the economic scene from information technology - to which India contributes some of the world's finest engineers and programmers - to rural squalor deeper in few other places.
Small rural towns sport thousands of posters and billboards advertising computer training courses, internet cafes, and computer engineering opportunities.
Recent policies to improve rural economic conditions have slowed the flow of migrants from the countryside.
Bangladesh’s central bank, for example, has introduced rules to encourage financial inclusion, including requirements that banks use a percentage of their disbursements to strengthen agricultural and rural credit lines.
Moreover, most of the existing housing tends to be in rural areas, whereas most of the jobs are in the cities.
The country’s rural and elderly population – like those in other former Soviet countries – appears to prize economic stability and social order over democratic development.
For example, the International Finance Corporation is investing $25 million in Zambia National Commercial Bank to increase access to finance for small-scale entrepreneurs and rural agribusiness companies, which account for a significant share of Zambia’s economic output.
In rural Africa, where doctors are typically very scarce and AIDS prevalence is often high, the high life-saving potential of CHWs has been very well demonstrated and documented.
There are an estimated 215 million international migrants today – a number expected to grow to 400 million by 2040 – and another 740 million internal migrants who have moved from rural to urban areas within countries.
In rural Pakistan, remittances are associated with higher school enrollment, especially for girls.
They rightly contest the degradation of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.
At that time, one had to be careful, given the government’s sensitivities, even about how one framed the country’s problems – its poverty, lack of rural productivity, and unskilled workforce.
Nevertheless, efforts to eliminate them have failed repeatedly, not because of a lack of policy analysis, but because of the political power of the rural states.
On an extended trip this summer through rural areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa on behalf of the United Nations, I visited countless villages afflicted with extreme hunger and struggling to survive against the odds.
The expanding hunger crisis reflects a lethal combination of growing rural populations and inadequate food yields.
Rural populations are growing because poor farm households choose to have many children, who work as farmhands and serve as social security for their parents.
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