A study has found that many rural and small municipalities don’t have the staff or resources to make formal plans against ...

China kicked off an annual rural work conference in Beijing on Saturday to map out the country's strategies and policies for agricultural and rural development in 2008. China's rural development will ...

The blog highlights and summarizes a policy brief written by Catherine Brinkley, an associate professor of Human Ecology and Director of the Center for Regional Change at UC Davis, and M. Anne Visser, ...

India’s smallholder and rural development initiatives are emerging as global benchmarks, with agricultural models being ...

The P.E.I. government won't have its rural development strategy ready until the fall of 2009. In April's throne speech, the government announced a new Department of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural ...

Energizing Entrepreneurs" was among the topics explored during the fourth annual Small Town and Rural Development Conference at Crystal Mountain Resort in mid-April. Don Macke, director of ...

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has completed its proposed amendments to the National Target Programme for Building New Rural Areas for the 2011-15 period, ...

Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Ghana of blessed memory, introduced a brilliant strategy for the development of the rural areas in Ghana; and backed this strategy with ...