USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of ...

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...

Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities.

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development agency is currently conducting a review of all the areas under its jurisdiction to determine which areas no longer ...

In July, the same survey showed that almost 75 per cent of rural households expected their incomes to rise in the next one ...

Glenn Denning is Director of the Earth Institute's Millennium Development Goals Centre in Nairobi, in which he played a lead role in its establishment. He joined the Institute at Columbia University ...

Four deer stand among the corn stalks in a field along Old Collinsville Road in rural Caseyville Township last week. The area is still farmland, though many subdivisions have been built, or are being ...

While China’s rapid economic growth lifted more than 850 million of people out of poverty since 1978, it was associated with rising urban-rural inequalities in incomes, opportunities, and quality of ...

The USDA Rural Development office in Stevens Point may relocate after Sept. 30, 2025. The lease termination is part of a cost-saving review by the Department of Government Efficiency. No jobs will be ...