City limits: Pakistan’s poor return to villages as prices spiral
As Pakistan’s cost-of-living crisis deepens, some poor families leave cities to eke out cheaper existences in village homes. ZOFEEN T EBRAHIM and WAQAR MUSTAFA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report…
Essay: Japan is paying families a million yen to move to the countryside – but it won’t make Tokyo any smaller
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER MATANLE, a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK, looks at the latest Japanese efforts to ease Tokyo’s overcrowding while revitalising rural areas…
PIGS FOR PEACE: WINDING BACK FROM WAR IN COLOMBIA
THIN LEI WIN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how peace is being settled in the conflict-torn South American nation…
Rise in rural poverty reverses gains in Latin America – UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rural poverty has risen for the first time in a decade in Latin America and the Caribbean, reversing earlier gains, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said on Wednesday. Two million people joined the ranks of the region’s rural poor between 2014 and 2016, taking the total to nearly half the rural […]