Word: ruralization
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...bent over double, hoeing scrawny plants in dirt packed so hard it's tough to imagine anything ever growing in it. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent over the past half-century trying to do something about the region's crushing poverty, but the situation remains desperate. Rural Africa is hollowing out, unable to feed itself, let alone supply food to the continent's rapidly growing megacities...
...important to involve the women of Africa from the start. It isn't just that women cultivate most of the food crops, like maize and cassava, while men typically focus on cash crops, like tobacco. Women--for better or worse--have generally stayed behind in rural communities, while men migrated farther and farther afield in search of employment and educational opportunities...
MINNESOTA, IOWA, THE DAKOTAS, NEBRASKA, MONTANA Despite lower income, rural whites in these states live longer (79 years) than wealthier whites in Middle America (77.9 years...
...fare the worst, on average living only to age 58 MISSISSIPPI RIVER Life expectancy for counties immediately east and west of the Mississippi River is 76.6 and 77.2, respectively APPALACHIA AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Low income whites here die on average four years sooner than their neighbors in the rural Northern Plains...
What seems certain is that the two brothers will continue together in their quest to turn a company based in rural Switzerland into an international powerhouse. Albert recently refused an offer from a major design house because, he says, "you cannot have two souls." His is clearly in such a quiet place that when he strokes a fabric and falls into silent contemplation, you can hear the tinkle of cowbells from the nearby hills...