SANTIAGOE, CHILE/ROME - Improving tenure in Amazon basin can lower deforestation rates and biodiversity loss. Deforestation rates are significantly lower in Indigenous and Tribal territories where governments have formally recognized collective land rights, according to a new report launched today.

KARACHI: Pakistan and other countries around the world can still achieve targets under the sustainable development goals (SDGs) despite challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, said researchers and development experts at a recent online seminar organised by Aga Khan University’s Institute for Global Health and Development (IGHD).

Enhanced use of digital technologies can help boost rural revitalization, a goal outlined in the policy statement made by the central authorities last month. Pony Ma, a lawmaker from Guangdong province who also chairs internet company Tencent Holdings Ltd, said digitalization in agricultural production needs to be advanced through the marriage [...]

(Togo First) - Lomé presently hosts a territorial branding workshop on the theme “Territorial intelligence: methods and tools to support Togolese municipalities.”

MANILA – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) continues to support micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in rural areas through its mentorship program, the Kapatid Mentor ME (KMME).

Karachi - Without engaging local communities and civil society organisations, the government cannot achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations for 2030.

China unveiled its "No. 1 central document" for 2021 on Sunday, stressing the efforts to comprehensively push forward rural vitalization and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.

In partnership with the European Union, the African Union will soon implement the recommendations of the joint report on Rural Africa where four areas of action stand out, among them the implementation of the strategy for territorial development and job creation, sustainable management of land, natural resources and climate action. [...]

Meaningful citizen participation is imperative for equitable development. Since rural development is a people-oriented programme, it is essential that people should take an active part in the rural development process.

“My entire professional career I’ve worked with and for women,” says Norwegian and Finnish Honorary Consul to Armenia, Sir Timothy Straight, who in 2013 founded the Homeland Development Initiative Foundation (HDIF) social enterprise NGO to carve out a niche for ‘Handmade in Armenia’ products within the global economy. Providing sustainable [...]