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 small town of Houston, Missouri, is off the beaten path and has only 2,500 residents, but it still doesn't meet the definition of "rural" in some federal programs. Small towns far from big cities ...

Geographical Indications (GIs) serve as a pivotal mechanism in both safeguarding the heritage of local products and promoting rural development. By linking products to their specific place of origin, ...

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Ten rural Georgia counties will receive a combined $8 million as part of the state’s second round of grants in an initiative to develop rural sites, Gov. Brian Kemp announced last week. The grants are ...

At independence, Tanzania inherited the agriculturally based, colonial economic structure together with the First Three Year Plans which had been prepared with the help of the World Bank. After the ...

Rural communities are essential to the nation’s social, economic, and scientific future. Yet when it comes to STEM education and workforce development, these communities are often underserved, ...

Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...

The USDA Rural Development is a lifeline to economically depressed rural towns where Trump is popular but the Trump Administration has damaged the agency. It's been a turbulent couple of months at the ...

Blackburn's podcast "Unmuted" hosted Commissioner Stuart McWhorter of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. McWhorter gave details on the $45 million in funding earmarked for ...