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, ...

Rural development and governance in Europe have evolved into a dynamic interplay between tried-and-tested local practices and modern policy innovations. Contemporary frameworks seek to balance ...

Global food systems face a critical challenge: ensuring affordable food for all while securing dignified livelihoods for farmers and rural communities. Past ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...