How can policies raise well-being in rural areas? The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has been examining such issues for over 40 years. OECD’s 12th 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 ...

Most of the presidential candidates, including President Donald Trump, support using taxpayer funds to provide direct subsidies to farmers through price support, federal crop insurance, and other farm ...

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 ...

Rural Resilience is ARC2020’s strategic initiative to strengthen civil society’s role in shaping the future of rural Europe.

Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...

As part of the 2025 ILO Academy on Rural Development, held online, the ILO Cooperative, Social and Solidarity Economy Unit ...

Slower mortgage approvals, stalled rural home loans and a freeze on new flood insurance policies: The government shutdown, which began at midnight on October 1, may gum up some of the gears that keep ...

Significant cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture by the Trump administration have reduced staff working locally for the Rural Development program, including in New Mexico and a former USDA ...

Rural Kentucky stands at an economics crossroads. Balancing Kentucky’s energy portfolio and rural development can restore those communities and chart a new path forward. With the elections this ...

Poverty alleviation is important in 2020. This is a benchmark year — China’s socialist experiment is supposed to deliver a ‘moderately well-off society’ in 2020 before making the big push towards a ...