Cosmopolitanism is a western notion that epitomizes the need social agents have to conceive of a political and cultural entity, larger than their own homeland, that would encompass all human beings on a global scale. Cosmopolite in Ancient Greece meant citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism presupposes a positive attitude towards difference, a desire to construct broad allegiances and equal and ...

ed from: Nguyen Xuan Nguyen et al. (January 2010). Study on adoption of the System of Rice Intensification in Northern provinces of Vietnam. A report by commissioned by Oxfam America. On average, each woman from an SRI Farmer Field School promotes 5-8 other farmers to adopt SRI while the rate is only 1-3 for male graduates. Top: FFS graduates in Dông Trù village, Hanoi province, undertake SRI t...

The village tradestore in rural Papua New Guinea is a physical expression of modernity in the heart of the village and is symbolic of the new economic and social formations associated with incorporation. This paper examines how the village tradestore is positioned in relation to these processes of change by considering the management and operation of several tradestores in the Wosera sub-distri...

ease is otherwise when too many people collect in a village and use the tank both for bathing and drinking purposes. Moreover, when there is.a collection of people in a village, there is a chance of a carrier arriving from outside. It appears that something of the kind happened in this case. On the 24th February, which was the day of the marriage, two of the guests were attacked with cholera an...

among villages in the analysis. Furthermore, our analysis assessed the prevalence of clinically active trachoma in a village as opposed to its presence in an individual. A village-level analysis is most useful for trachoma program managers, who make treatment decisions based on the prevalence of trachoma in a village. Our findings suggest that in areas with hyperendemic trachoma treated through...

This paper evaluates the short-term impact of Thailand's 'Million Baht Village Fund'program, among the largest scale government microfinance iniative in the world, using pre- and post-program panel data and quasi-experimental cross-village variation in credit-per-household. We find that the village funds have increased total short-term credit, consumption, agricultural investment, income growth...

OBJECTIVE To record the medicinal plants of Uthapuram Village, Madurai district, Tamilnadu, South India for the first time and the usage of these medicinal plants to remediate the diseases among the peoples. METHODS Explorative field trips were made to the village for about twelve months from April 2012 to May 2013 to survey the medicinal plants and collect the information from the villagers....

© 2006 Society of Rural Physicians of Canada Can J Rural Med 2006; 11 (4) O nce upon a time there was a little farming village in the valley, not far from a castle on the hill. The people in the village liked to help each other. The local healers were considered a part of their village “family.” One day, as medical knowledge and technology developed, they all decided that they could best help t...