VIENTIANE, Lao PDR, February 3, 2012 – The Government of Lao PDR, jointly with the World Bank Group, organized a regional workshop focusing on community driven development and improvement of rural ...

Rural areas in the Global South are evolving, as are the challenges and opportunities facing people in these areas. A large vegetable farm with irrigation systems operating under a clear sky, ...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) serves dumplings to villager Meng Guangxian's family members during lunch time in Huanxian County of Qingyang City in northwest China's Gansu Province, on Jan. 22, 2012, ...

A substantial share of Sri Lankans live in rural areas and depend on agriculture, fisheries, and small-scale enterprises.

India's National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) aims to benefit some 350 million people in 12 states which account for almost 85% of the rural poor. The World Bank will support the NRLM with a ...

JAMMU: The plenary session of the threeday national seminar on Sustainable Rural Livelihood: Technological and Institutional Perspective organised by the Division of Agricultural Extension Education ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37, No. 4, Focus Issue: Implications of Out- and In-Migration for Sustainable Development in Mountains (Nov 2017), pp. 456-463 (8 pages) Based on a case study ...

In Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, Sakhi Utpadan Samiti empowers rural women, transforming livelihoods through innovation and collaboration In the heartlands of Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, where traditional ...

Ecology and Society, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Dec 2010) (24 pages) ABSTRACT. In this paper, we explore the resilience and vulnerability of livelihoods within two different social-ecological dryland contexts of ...

Angarika Gogoi is a senior communications associate at CEEW. She has worked as a journalist at The Better India and 101 Reporters. Angarika graduated from Hindu College with a degree in history and ...