Bridging the digital divide: How US Black churches play a key role in connecting communities to broadband internet
ADELLE M BANKS and YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, report on the role Black churches are playing in helping rural communities to access the world wide web…
COVID in Nigeria: Armed gangs raise risks in vaccinating people in rural areas
CHINEDU ASADU, of Associated Press, reports on the key role community health workers are playing in getting the COVID-19 vaccines out to rural areas in Nigeria…
A country calling: Rural chaplains support communities facing hate groups, isolation and labour shortages
KATHRYN POST, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports on how rural chaplains in the US and UK are supporting communities amid an onslaught of pandemic-era challenges caused by labour shortages, ecological crises and changes in supply and demand…
Plague of mice hits parts of rural Australia
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Some rural communities in the Australian state of New South Wales are suffering their worst plague of mice in decades after a bumper grain harvest, local people said. Eyewitness video obtained by Reuters showed thousands of the tiny rodents swarming around a farm in the town of Gilgandra. Mice run away on a […]
Worsening land inequality widens gender, climate change gaps
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Land inequality is growing worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of 2.5 billion people who directly rely on farming and widening disparities in gender, health and climate-change impacts, researchers warned on Tuesday. The widening gap in ownership and access to land especially hurts small and marginal farmers, women, and Indigenous and rural communities, […]