Colonias are often defined as rural communities near the U.S.-Mexico border that lack access to the basics, like water and sewer services. Colonias are predominantly low-income communities, often unincorporated with mainly Latino residents who are mostly U.S. citizens. Learn more about RCAP’s...
Eventually it was just me and a sleeping bag under the fish market. It has been like that for four years now”. Jackson’s story highlights the additional and unique challenges facing young people experiencing homelessness in rural and regional communities accessing appropriate support and housing....
This study is aimed at highlighting aspects of the management of protected areas within rural communities in the Mount Cameroon Region of West Africa. The region is characterised by rapid exploration of the natural forest through illegal practices of poaching. This has led to the rapid extinction ...
This is a relatively important category because almost 14% of Mexico’s total population lives in rural communities near roads. These localities account for 39% of the total population of Zacatecas, and about a third of the total for Hidalgo, Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí. The authors agree to...
The makeup of rural communities An open-ended question invited participants to tell more about the makeup of their communities. Race, ethnicity and cultural backgroundsincluding White, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Native American or Indigenous, Francophone and general diversity were mentioned in 95% of...
There they can get a glimpse of local communities as part of Visit Badrashin!, a sustainable tourism project funded by the European Union. "When a tourist visits, they can pass by a farmer here and have a cup of tea in the fields, buy handicrafts from a woman selling them or...
and the cost of it. This is expensive infrastructure to get to those communities that are not served — which is a proper place for that funding to go. It is essential for that funding to go there, but it takes time, and it’s even more money than I think anybo...
Like Dawson, Ga., where Taylor, 42, lives, the communities affected when rural hospitals closed often have significant Black populations. “At every step in the pipeline, hospitals with a larger footprint in the African American community are more likely to shut,” said Ho...
Methods Area of study This study was conducted in four communities located in the buffer zone of the National Forest of Araripe, Ceará, a semiarid region of Northeast Brazil, with two located near this protected area (< 2 km; Group 1) and two being more distant (≥2 km; Group 2), ...
In 2004, the Korean government launched a comprehensive plan on agriculture and rural communities and established the “Ten-Year Mid and Long-Term Policy Framework on Agriculture and Rural Communities”. In each phase, massive investments have been made to achieve the specific goals (Table 1), ...