India’s migrant millions: Caught between jobless villages and city hazards
KRISHN KAUSHIK and JOSEPH CAMPBELL, of Reuters, report…
FARMING RIGHTS: GLOBAL RECOGNITION “OPENS DOORS” FOR PEASANT GROUPS, RIGHT TO LAND
CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on hopes the one-year-old UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants will help rural people defend their rights…
Global obesity rising faster in rural areas than cities, study finds
LondonReuters Global rates of obesity among people who live in the countryside are rising faster than those among city dwellers, in part due to greater access in urban areas to healthier foods and places to exercise, researchers said on Wednesday. In a study of 33 years of trends in body mass index (BMI) across 200 […]
Cities are sucking our countryside dry, scientists say
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Expanding cities are sucking up ever more water, exacerbating the effect of climate change and threatening to create a “dusty and deserted” rural hinterland, scientists said on Thursday. An international team of researchers calculated that globally at least 16 billion cubic meters of water – almost the annual flow of the […]
WOW!: HOW GRAVITY IS LIGHTENING THE LOAD FOR NEPAL’S HARD-WORKING RURAL WOMEN
AADESH SUBEDI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Nepal on the difference the installation of a gravity-assisted rope-and-cable system has made…
Millions of poor city children worse off than rural peers, says UNICEF
Thomson Reuters Foundation Millions of poor urban children are more likely to die before their fifth birthday than those living in rural areas, according to a UN study out on Tuesday that challenges popular assumptions behind the global urbanisation trend. The UNICEF research found not all children in cities benefited from the so-called urban advantage – the […]