Khabar Lahariya became the only newspaper that represented rural lives in intimate detail, reported and distributed by women who knew life and work, hardship and violence, and the culture in these ...

IFAD and India launch an eight-year roadmap focused on rural development, climate resilience, agriculture innovation and ...

Solar power is bringing light to remote villages across India. Rural residents, long disconnected from the grid, are increasingly using solar panels and battery banks to charge mobile phones, ...

Expanded partnership focuses on empowering smallholders, improving value chains and scaling resilient agricultural systems International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Government of India ...

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India and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have expanded their partnership to scale investment in rural ...

CHENNAI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Sales volume growth in the Indian consumer goods sector in the October-December quarter slowed sequentially amid soft sales at mom-and-pop stores, market researcher ...

Rural demand in India has strengthened over the past few months. FMCG consumption in villages and small towns has grown faster than in cities. In the three months ended September, rural volume growth ...

This article was originally published byIndian Country Today and is republished here with permission. Recently, Paul Krugman shared his thoughts about the decline of rural America: “There are powerful ...

Since 2004, two World Bank projects have helped the Government of India’s National Rural Roads Program (Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana or PMGSY) to substantially expand rural road connectivity in a ...