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 ...

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 ...

Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...

Building, maintaining, and operating a water and sewer system is generally the most expensive item on a small town’s budget. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Water and Waste Disposal Program is a ...

A fruit farmer is picking apples in the apple field on August 6, 2025, in Awat county, Aksu, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur ...