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 ...

Geographical Indications (GIs) serve as a pivotal mechanism in both safeguarding the heritage of local products and promoting rural development. By linking products to their specific place of origin, ...

Although China is increasingly urban (66.2% of Chinese live in cities and towns), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) begins every year highlighting its rural foundations. Since 1982, the first document ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

COLBY – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Kansas State Director Gimmie Jo Jansonius participated in a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden today unveiled the Lender Lens on the ...

The Alabama Department of Commerce has named two new leaders for its rural development division. Join us at our 40 Under 40 ...

In this April 5, 2010 photo, Lisa Kartek stands near an open field and looks toward the home she purchased in Annandale, Minnesota, through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development ...

USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

Amanda Burke will be based in the agency’s state office in Bangor. With more than 20 years of experience in real estate finance and mortgage lending, Burke leads a team of 13 Rural Development housing ...