Haat Bazaar is a general term for a weekly market organized in a rural society. Generally held on a playground or an open fieldthey help local farmers earn supplemental income by selling surplus ...

Every visit to the rural vicinities across Nepal today presents a new sign of change, a call to marketers that they will have to re-strategize their promotion plan. But there is no specific formula to ...

Almost two decades ago, when I started my career in the field of communication, the concept of rural marketing was still an alien one. But since then things have changed. I have seen a vast ...

However, significant achievements in the micro hydropower sector have also brought about various challenges like MHP-national grid interface Micro hydropower plants (MHPs), starting as small turbine ...

Pastor Soman Rai and his group of volunteers from Kathmandu walk to a small church in the village of Shilaprabat, in Sindhupalchock, an area left devastated by the deadly earthquakes that shook Nepal ...

A research project conducted in the Himalayas has shown that implementing telehealth technologies to reach patients in rural areas can improve access to care for women and girls. The findings in rural ...

Water is life. Nowhere is that adage as relevant as in a village along the Tila River in this valley in far western Nepal. Fed by glaciers higher up, the river flows strong all year round. But just a ...

As solar-powered pumps bring water closer to home, income from apple-growing is on the rise - and men feel less pressure to migrate in search of work JUMLA, Nepal, March 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) ...