Abstract: Urbanization in Germany started earlier than some other countries. At different stages of its urbanization, the problems and challenges faced by rural areas are quite different, and the ...

Germany’s Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation’s (BMZ) in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has committed the sum of €52 million support for ...

German villages and small towns could hold the key to socially integrating a mass influx of refugees who would in turn help revitalise dwindling rural populations, experts say. "The rural regions are ...

As Germany heads to polls on Sunday, and with conservative Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) being the frontrunner to succeed Olaf Scholz as chancellor, rural ...

Small and medium-sized companies in Germany's more rural areas face huge challenges as labor shortages are increasingly being felt in the countryside. When visitors take in the view from the ruins of ...

On the outskirts of the medieval town of Rottweil in southeast Germany and surrounded by the Black Forest, an 800 ft ...

In Germany, more people die of heart attacks in rural areas than in cities. This, however, cannot be explained by the so-called case fatality rate, which is the proportion of people who die as a ...