The small town of Truman, population 1,000, has new owners giving renewed life to the China House Cafe. In Blue Earth, population 3,200, three long-vacant buildings in the downtown are poised to have ...

Reflections from a Capacity Building Programme at IMPARD Khan Sameer Gender and child budgeting are essential instruments for ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2012- Most of the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill has centered on building a better safety net for farmers and ranchers who face extreme volatility with prices and production. At ...

Rural development generally refers to the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. Rural development has ...

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, ...

Extreme poverty is mainly a rural phenomenon. Four of every five people below the $1.90-a-day international income poverty line lived in rural areas in 2013 (Castañeda and others, 2018). Over the last ...

Nearly 1.1 million Louisiana residents live in rural parishes, with 37% covered by Medicaid and 22% covered by Medicare.

This article briefly traces several historical moments of land reform in China, particularly the implementation of the household contract system, the emergence of township enterprises, and the use of ...

Kai Mausch received funding from multiple organisations that fund international agricultural research. David Harris has received funding from various public institutions that support international ...