Programs that brought internet access to rural students are set to expire.
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While the COVID-19 pandemic spurred significant progress in expanding rural home internet access, these gains are proving temporary as resources dwindle.
Police detectives sort through evidence after raiding a suspected meth lab.
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An anthropologist who wrote a book exploring meth’s impact on rural communities explains what drove the epidemic and how it’s changed.
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The number of people sleeping rough in rural areas has increased by 24% in the last year.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Cannabis plants.
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Contrary to popular views, it was not just uneducated and socially deviant individuals who were engaged in cannabis farming or trade.
Dharavi slum in India. Billions of people live in terrible conditions in the world’s cities.
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Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
Protestors in Lagos rally against plans to remove the fuel subsidy in 2012.
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Fuel subsidy removal can benefit workers and poor Nigerians, if the process is carefully managed and implemented.
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High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
Professor Julian May examining food supplies in the home of Brenda Siko, who runs an unregistered early childhood development centre in Worcester’s Mandela Square informal settlement.
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A ‘learning journey’ research process exposed a broad group of participants to local realities of the food system and childcare in a small town.
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Boosting income support payments beyond their current austere levels remains a crucial pillar of policy for governments genuinely committed to reducing persistent disadvantage.
Increasing poverty is forcing more women to become farmers in Adamawa State.
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Drug abuse among women farmers in Adamawa State, north east Nigeria, is rising.
Coffee buyers’ initiatives for coffee farmers’ welfare are often based on myths.
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Interventions with good intentions aren’t always fruitful.
A protest sign in rural Wales.
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Perhaps this crisis will focus minds on the problems caused by neglecting rural areas.
A Tanzanian farmer tractor driver in Makuyuni, Arusha, Tanzania.
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Why poverty line data do not capture the ability of Tanzanians to build relatively good houses.
Chilean police clash with anti-government demonstrators during a protest in Santiago, Chile, Nov. 12, 2019. Santiago is one of a dozen cities worldwide to see mass unrest in recent months.
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From Santiago and La Paz to Beirut and Jakarta, many of the cities now gripped by protest share a common problem: They’ve grown too much, too fast.
Traditional non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages are made from locally available produce - like bananas.
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Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Ornamental craft made from palm leaves and pine cone in grass baskets are sold in Eswatini.
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Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
Having women in power may keep Ethiopia’s girls in school.
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The appointment of women into positions of power can break stereotypes and inspire girls.
Scott Morrison visiting a Queensland farm this week.
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Having an envoy for drought and a prime minister keen to visit drought-affected areas puts the government under pressure to do the wrong thing.
In 2016, about 16 million people in Kenya couldn’t afford to meet their basic needs – which include food and shelter.
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Statistics suggest that the fight against poverty is far from being won in Kenya.