- Challenging Rural Poverty
Experiences in Institution-Building and Popular Participation for Rural Development in Eastern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Challenging Rural Poverty includes papers on a range of topics reflecting the alternative development experiences of Eastern African countries. It is an attempt to unveil the causes of the "development crisis" in Africa.
- Climate Change Drives Up Rural Poverty in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
In Latin America and the Caribbean region's first meeting of Week of Agriculture and Food, held in November 2018, more than 1,000 officials and experts agreed that the fall in agricultural yields and increasing migration from the countryside are consequences of global warming.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Rural Americans and the Language Too Many People Use to Talk About Them
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
With the rural-urban divide more pronounced now than it has been in generations, the author takes a closer look at the derogatory language too many people use, as well their meaning and contradictions.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
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