Jenna Batchelder and her husband Brad have been raising livestock for years. A grant from USDA Rural Development helped them branch out into a successful retail meat business. The USDA's Rural ...

Charleston County created a zoning overlay district in Ten Mile and outlining guidelines to preserve rural character amid ...

The inaugural CapitaLand Community Resilience Initiative will support vulnerable children and youth across China, India, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Tourism can play an important role in diversifying the rural economy and its expanding in rural areas contributes to the sustainability of the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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, ...

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 ...

Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ to release $10.8 billion, which includes $2.5 billion in loan subsidies, ...

Among those who joined Bauer were senior research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Surekha Carpenter, President of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Jen Giovannitti, Executive ...

Former State Rep. Michael Cabell of Butler Twp. is the new director of Rural Development for Pennsylvania, a federal agency that in the past 12 years provided $10.6 billion to the state for home loans ...