Biodiversity
How are farmers responding to COVID-19?
Pavel Devyatkin The cases from Ecuador, Ghana and Nepal show that the impacts of the pandemic are different for women, indigenous peoples and rural […]
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Disasters
Why alluvial flood plains of north Bihar, India need alternative sanitation system
Flood is a recurring threat to the sustainability of open defecation free status in Bihar. Unique toilets, built on elevation, can show the way […]
Biodiversity
Solomon Islanders tried to stop the logging of their forests – and may pay the price
Morgan Erickson-Davis The majority of the 611,000 people of the Solomon Islands still live traditional rural existences on the 900 islands that make up […]
Biodiversity
A message to Indian urban voters from forests, rivers and indigenous communities
It is high that the rural knowledge system on ecology reaches our urbanites for their own good. We have just made a small beginning […]
Governance
USA: Without Price Breaks, Rural Hospitals Struggle To Stock Costly, Lifesaving Drugs
Sarah Jane Tribble Unlike bigger hospitals, rural hospitals can’t get discounts on expensive drugs that treat rare diseases because of a last-minute exclusion written […]