IGNACIO – Community leader Kasey Correia will go to West Virginia next week for a national rural design summit as part of Ignacio’s recent acceptance into Colorado’s Rural Technical Assistance Program ...

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, ...

RALEIGH – Nineteen rural North Carolina communities will participate in a new program to boost their economic development capacity, under a pilot initiative from the state’s Department of Commerce.

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, ...

The Mississippi Main Street Association has received funding from the USDA Rural Community Development Initiative to implement the Mississippi Real Estate Redevelopment Game Plan project in New Albany ...

As Congress prepares to shape the next farm bill, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry wants the discussion to include "new opportunities to ensure a vibrant rural economy." Rural development embraces economic ...

Rural and regional geography is a dynamic field that examines the spatial organisation, evolution and resilience of rural areas and the interlinkages between these regions and larger urban networks.