Rural

Rural development is the continuous and comprehensive socio-economic process of improving all aspects of rural life. Traditionally, rural development has been focused on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as forests and agriculture. However, growing urbanisation and changes in global production networks have changed the character of rural areas today. Rural development remains at the core of the country’s overall development. More than two-thirds of the country’s population depends on agriculture…

Science has long presumed that children living in cities grow faster and healthier than rural kids—but that trend has flipped over the past two decades, a new study suggests. A global study published Wednesday in Nature found that the average height of urban children and adolescents ages 5 to 19 is now slightly shorter than that of their peers in rural areas in most countries—notably in wealthy countries such as the U.S., the U.K. and France. “Where we've historically seen a quite clear benefit for living in cities, that…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study has found that a professional development program helped teachers in a rural school district in the Southeast to collaborate and identify innovative solutions to serve multilingual learners, or students learning English as a second language. The study, published in the Journal of…

What is Rural Credit?Agriculture is the primary source of income for people living in India’s rural areas. Farmers and peasants have to invest a significant amount of funds each year to guarantee a healthy crop. As a result, they frequently borrow money from moneylenders and financial institutions to meet their basic requirements before harvest season so they can make money by selling their crops. Thus, Agricultural Rural Credit refers to any loan taken for agricultural reasons or small home enterprises in India’s rural…

Hollywood star Johnny Depp has chosen to enjoy a quiet life away from the glitz and blitz of Hollywood. After settling his defamation battle against ex-wife and actress Amber Heard, the actor opened up in a magazine interview that he is currently residing in a rural English countryside, reports aceshowbiz.com. Speaking to Somerset Life, the 59-year-old spilled the reasons behind his decision. "I just love places with character. I have various houses in various places and they all mean something special to me," he said.…

Here is a fierce, bitter tale with a flinty sharpness: partly a social-realist drama of class and xenophobia, and partly a rural noir horror, a Euro-arthouse twist on Straw Dogs or Deliverance. It’s inspired by the true story from 2010 of a middle-class hippy idealist Dutch couple who attempted to settle in the Spanish village of Santoalla in Galicia’s remote “wild west” and fell out badly with their neighbours over their gentrification plans: a row that escalated into a nightmare. It has in fact already been the subject…

Credit: mepstock/Shutterstock In Britain, people imagine poverty as mainly an urban phenomenon. We think of poverty as rundown housing estates or tower blocks, far from the idyllic countryside scenes of shows like Escape to the Country. But this is only part of the picture. Poverty in rural areas is more widespread than people…

WASHINGTON—The U.S. plans to spend at least $60 billion in the next decade to ensure every American household has high-speed internet. An old-fashioned obstacle stands in the way: utility poles.Getting everyone the same service city dwellers enjoy generally means stretching fiber-optic cable to homes, farms and ranches in rural areas. Many of these places already have utility poles carrying electric or telephone wires. The poles are owned by electric or phone companies that often aren’t getting public money…

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Heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. It occurs when the heart muscle becomes weak or damaged, making it difficult for the heart to pump efficiently. This can lead to a build-up of fluid in the body and a shortage of oxygen and nutrients to the body’s organs. Common causes of heart failure include high blood pressure, heart attack, and other forms of heart disease.A large study supported by the National Institutes of Health also revealed that Black men…