Understanding the spatial pattern of agricultural cultural heritages (ACHs) is the prerequisite and foundation for their innovative and development. Based on GIS technologies, this paper analyzes the ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Karl Elmshaeuser announced today ...

In California’s Tulare County, the adjacent towns of Cutler and Orosi have long benefited from USDA rural development programs that have helped provide access to water and sewer systems and housing ...

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 ...

ural development globally faces interconnected challenges, including poverty, food insecurity and lack of economic opportunities, inadequate infrastructure and the impacts of climate change. These ...

South Africa’s rural development debate often starts with a familiar idea: if rural households have more land, they can ...

Rural development is the single most powerful lever for inclusive growth in countries where a large share of the population lives outside cities. For Sri Lanka—where a significant portion of people ...

South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to push back rising poverty levels. The country’s poverty levels ...

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 ...