A proposed definition of the term rural submitted by the Department of Agriculture to Congress last month could have broad implications for small towns across America - and not everyone is happy about ...

[imgbelt img=moulton2.jpg] The Senate version of the Farm Bill makes it easier to be classified as “rural.” Now any place under 50,000 people will qualify for the bill’s rural programs — and that ...

Do you live in a rural area? For most of us, that question is relatively easy to answer. We can simply look outside of our ...

The U.S. government has at least 15 different official definitions of the word “rural,” including 11 at the Agriculture Department alone. These definitions apply to different programs, often ...

[imgbelt img=yolo.jpg]Proposed changes in how the USDA defines eligibility for its development programs will improve the department’s service to rural communities, says the deputy undersecretary in ...

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 ...