The blog highlights and summarizes a policy brief written by Catherine Brinkley, an associate professor of Human Ecology and Director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis, and M. Anne Visser, ...

The rural vote that was key to electing President Donald Trump in 2016 has focused a spotlight on rural America. Welcoming this new attention, academic researchers are zeroing in on identifying the ...

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, ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 17, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) convened members from Iowa, Maine, and Mississippi to discuss rural ...

Rural development and governance in Europe have evolved into a dynamic interplay between tried-and-tested local practices and modern policy innovations. Contemporary frameworks seek to balance ...

The upcoming National Budget must also directly address the structural neglect of rural communities and formally incorporate traditional leadership into South Africa’s long-term development planning.

The gathering served as a platform to evaluate opportunities, operational challenges and future reform strategies for the rural banking ecosystem.

Poverty remains an integral component of human society down the ages. It is neither Eastern nor Western in character. However, material poverty is too notoriously difficult to define in a capsule form ...