Community leaders, residents, and USDA Rural Development representatives gather in Loveland, Ohio, Nov. 2, 2024. RD's Community Facilities program allowed them to break ground on a new, ...

Sponsored by Ascendium Education Group, the FORWARD curriculum is designed to support Cooperative Extension Professionals (CEPs) working to address workforce development issues in rural communities.

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 ...

The Rural Partners Network places community liaisons in underserved rural areas that have historically faced challenges accessing and managing federal grants and resources. America’s rural communities ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Brian Depew, executive director of the Center for Rural ...

The Office for Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development serves both secondary and postsecondary students in rural areas in an effort to create a bridge between secondary education and career ...

Three downtown projects are now complete in Essex County, New York, and the North Country Rural Development Coalition is celebrating the transformation. The coalition showed off three completed ...

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) - The USDA Rural Development State Director for Wisconsin Julie Lassa announced Monday the department is investing $19.4 million to help two electric cooperatives expand and ...

Promoting sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD) is the subject of chapter 14 of Agenda 21. The major objective of SARD is to increase food production in a sustainable way and enhance ...

Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

Land reform and rural development are implemented within functional economic regions rather than reinforcing marginal settlement patterns.