Crescence and Prominence are both examples of projects that are designed with that exact balance in mind. For example, both ...

Rural development generally refers to the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas. Rural development has ...

The small town of Truman, population 1,000, has new owners giving renewed life to the China House Cafe. In Blue Earth, population 3,200, three long-vacant buildings in the downtown are poised to have ...

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 United States must rethink how it invests in rural communities. The current economic crisis in the United States requires a renewed commitment to investing in rural communities in order to ensure ...

As climate change intensifies, rural communities across Costa Rica are taking concrete steps to reduce risks and adapt to increasing climate pressures. With support from the international program ...

Changing Traditional Gender Roles "From Within" Rather Than "From Without" The distinctiveness of household-based approaches to training and extension is that they bring about changes in gender ...

Kai Mausch received funding from multiple organisations that fund international agricultural research. David Harris has received funding from various public institutions that support international ...

In new initiative backed by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, is rethinking how rural innovations should be designed, evaluated and scaled, not as a trickle-down of ...

Since 2013, Myanmar’s National Community Driven Development Project has benefited more than 7 million people in 63 townships (approximately 20 percent of the country) and more than 12,000 villages, ...