Tag Archives: Rural

On our first morning in Atalbéitar, I walk into the kitchen to make coffee and wonder if I’m feeling the effects of the previous night’s festivities. Then I remember it’s not me; it’s the kitchen floor, which is on a gentle slope. I have to be careful carrying the coffee …

Engr. Umar Abdullahi Umar, son of the former Governor of Kano state and current National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has been appointed as the Executive Director, Technical Services of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA).    Umar was appointed into the new REA management team …

Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, Ahmad Salihijo Ahmad has been suspended by President Bola Tinubu alongside three other executive directors of the agency over alleged ₦1.2 billion fraud.   Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said this came after findings from an investigation.    It …

by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Inter Press Service CARACAS, Jan 31 (IPS) – Rural life in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be marked by poverty and inequality compared to the towns and cities where the vast majority of the population lives. A new focus on rural …

Castanheiro Boutique Hotel, Funchal Set in the heart of Funchal’s atmospheric Old Town, the five historic houses that make up Castanheiro offer guests an immersion in more than 300 years of Madeiran history. Communal areas in each house are filled with antique furniture and period pieces from its earlier incarnations …

Research associate, Tania Eulalia Martínez Cruz from Oaxaca, Mexico shows how intercropping assists communities remain self-sufficient. Credit: Conrado Perez/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Friday, December 15, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Dec 15 (IPS) – The world is not on track to end hunger and poverty as a future of growing …

Access Bank Plc, in collaboration with Asolar, has launched a green energy solution to tackle power supply challenges faced by small and medium enterprises and rural communities across the country.     The products, which included solar-powered TV sets, Air Conditioners, and PoS machines, among many others, were launched on …

President Biden on Wednesday began a tour of rural communities at a Minnesota hog farm where he lamented the loss of family farms, attacked the corporate consolidation of agriculture and pledged to oversee a renaissance of the American heartland. The president’s efforts to focus attention on the domestic economy ahead …

Yard signs along the quiet country roads of Green Charter Township, Mich., home to horse farms and a 19th-century fish hatchery, blare a message that an angered community hopes is heard by local leaders, the Biden administration and China: “No Gotion.” The opposition is to a plan by Gotion, a …

Several years ago I was asked to judge the homemade wines at a local agricultural show. I have written to tight deadlines at World Cups and delivered a speech in the Long Room at Lord’s; neither filled me with quite the same feelings of pressure and anxiety. I knew how …