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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Brian Depew, executive director of the Center for Rural ...

The Office for Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development serves both secondary and postsecondary students in rural areas in an effort to create a bridge between secondary education and career ...

The concept of smart villages encapsulates a holistic approach to rural development by harnessing digitalisation, innovative technologies and community engagement to overcome longstanding challenges ...

Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

Three downtown projects are now complete in Essex County, New York, and the North Country Rural Development Coalition is celebrating the transformation. The coalition showed off three completed ...

MOLINE, Ill., May 12-- Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Co-Chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, expressed ...

Explore how rural India's mental health crisis impacts development, productivity, and gender equity, highlighting urgent care and policy needs.