Improved agroecological practices tend to lead production diversity but often fall short of achieving optimal dietary in rural contexts. Thus, multi-prong interventions involving knowledge and skill development for consumption are needed. This study assesses nutrition production-related implemented the East African Highlands, Pamir-Tian Shan, Hindukush Andes. Overall, 601 service providers were...

The most significant political fact of the latest elections within European Union is growth, in all states, right-wing “populist” formations. Alongside this, one relevant aspects share support that these “parties” have suburban, peripheral and rural areas. Starting from this premise, first part article aims to discuss relevance rural-urban dichotomy how territorial differences are an important ...

Containing an epidemic at its origin is the most desirable mitigation. Epidemics have often originated in rural areas, with rural communities among the first affected. Disease dynamics in rural regions have received limited attention, and results of general studies cannot be directly applied since population densities and human mobility factors are very different in rural regions from those in ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this population-based study is to examine the association between subjective quality of life and rural/urban residence in six Italian regions, including age and gender into the analysis. METHODS STUDY DESIGN community survey. STUDY POPULATION Samples stratified according to sex and age, drawn from municipal records. SAMPLE SIZE 4999 people 18 years and older, ...

INTRODUCTION Nursing shortages continue globally and are especially critical in rural and remote communities. Attracting nurses to work in less populated regions presents challenges that differ from those in urban areas. METHODS This pilot study focused on self-identified factors of nursing students who expressed an interest in rural practice post-graduation. The sample included students from...

Many Social Network Services (SNSs) such as Facebook and MySpace rely on a web server that enables the communication between users. As a consequence, SNSs’ users require Internet access to participate and interact with their contacts, a service that is not usually available in rural and developing areas. In this paper we introduce Goose, a distributed SNS for developing regions which provides s...

Providing network connectivity to rural regions in the developing world is an economically challenging problem especially given the low income levels and low population densities in such regions. Many existing connectivity technologies incur a high deployment cost that limits their affordability. Leveraging several emerging wireless technologies, this paper presents the case for economically vi...