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, ...

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 ...

Physician practices in rural areas of the country are being acquired by hospitals and healthcare systems at a dramatic rate. Between July 2012 and July 2015, hospital employment of physicians and ...

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 ...

This week we are hearing from REL Southwest (@RELSouthwest). This post is by Pia Peltola, REL Southwest Researcher. Today’s post is written from the researcher perspective. Stay tuned: Thursday we ...

SALINA, KANSAS—The University of Kansas School of Medicine – Salina opened in 2011—a one-building campus in the heart of wheat country dedicated to producing the rural doctors the country needs. Now, ...

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 ...