"A drone a day keeps the doctor away?" – or – Beyond the catchy title: Any research concerning drones for regional development?

I am preparing a course in Territorial Rural Development for the University of Pretoria. I have never been in South Africa, so for me this is a huge challenge. So I would like to get in touch with academics and public officers working in rural territorial (sub-national) contexts. I would appreciate any suggestions and would like to get in touch personally when visiting the country in February-April 2016. Thanks.

Luis Llambí, PhD in Rural Sociology, profesor and researcher, retired from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, Department of Social Anthropology, Chair of the Research Group on Rural Territorial Development 

Newbie researcher with a looming research-induced panic attack - I'm in need of some guidance.

My research project is focusing on how social interaction influence the self-management of chronic disease by baby boomers.

I would like to do a mixed methods study with a case study.

Could anyone suggest any robust ways to flesh out this methodology?

I am working on a presentation on the use of Blending Facilities as an option in Funding Rural Electrification in Africa. I will appreciate case studies and literature reviews. Thank you.

Do you know any ethnographies of conditional cash transfers? I am especially interested in those that go beyond assessing impact on the basis of interviews and lay out how CCTs interrelate with other aspects of local lives. Studies of rural communities are especially welcome.

And for those interested in CCTs and rural communities in Latin America: please see a call for papers (attached).

I am trying to review all of the possible evidences and practical cases of study in the world, specially in semiarid regions.

I am working on a planning development project that seeks to develop an integrated green infrastructure neighborhood in a rapid urban densification area.

The problem is related to data synthesis; meta-etnography can be used also to generalize descriptive case studies with no mention of interviews?

I need to pick up some point of view that would help me answer this question.  I am looking into the study of Legal Studies and would like to use some help here.

It should always be noted in such projects that the preparation of the working medium is much more complex and expensive than in the "normal" EDM.

Also the production according to small powder diameter must be inserted into the cost calculation.

Furthermore, it must be noted that the systems, which must be worn and renewed with the medium (liquid / powder). The scientific investigation is the one side, the economic application the other.