Poverty continues to be a challenge in Zimbabwe, with increased levels recorded during the COVID pandemic. In rural areas such as Nkayi, interventions targeting poverty cut across numerous fields agriculture, education, and infrastructure. Despite these interventions, daily confrontation challenge. This paper uses Michel de Certeau's theoretical tools discuss everyday contests between developme...

Abstract Drawing on my involvement as a researcher in mining conflicts customary land Central Kalimantan, I reflect positionality, assumptions, roles, expectations and impacts social change. Constant re-thinking of own biases was necessary order to grasp the nuanced complex nature villagers’ attitudes towards mining, their entangled relations with companies. My attempt act process facilitator, ...

A survey of ethnomedicinal plants of Shahdol division has been carried out with co-operation of Kol tribal villagers. During study 31 ethnomedicinal plants have been identified for the treatment of various disease. Harbarium has been prepared which contains information pertaining to botanical name, local name. Plants used their dose and process of administration.

Problems are encountered in using standard prostheses in developing countries, especially when the prostheses need repair and the amputees cannot come back to the workshop. Very simple, low cost and durable prostheses can solve this problem. The solution described has worked well with villagers in some rural areas of Thailand, where the inexpensive prosthesis permits walking bare-foot and throu...

Because avian influenza H5N1 infection risks are associated with exposure to infected poultry, we conducted a knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey of poultry-handling behavior among villagers in rural Cambodia. Despite widespread knowledge of avian influenza and personal protection measures, most rural Cambodians still have a high level of at-risk poultry handling.

the increasing of emigration from villages to cities and decreasing of services to villagers to afford of daily needs causes that they recourse to the cities especial in central business districts. it needs to spend much time and causes to increase the villagers’ costs. so in this article it have been tried to compare between the services centers for villagers in zabol city and it have been tri...

BACKGROUND Up to 4 million people in Tanzania are at risk for the parasitic disease onchocerciasis. A treatment program, Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin (CDTI), has made significant gains in prevention and treatment. Understanding factors affecting participation could help boost treatment coverage and sustain gains made in controlling onchocerciasis in endemic areas. PURPOSE To e...

What happens when asylum seekers from African or Middle Eastern countries are resettled by authorities in small European villages? When they arrive, welcomed, on the contrary, rejected villagers? Generally speaking, overseas migrants usually wish to be large cities. As for villagers, tend form communities closed themselves, so one might expect a rather cold reception. However, fieldwork Italian...