Ambassador Mohan Pieris, President’s Counsel, has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York since January 2021. Prior to his appointment, Ambassador ...

AscendRural, which funds and facilitates rural pilots for tech startups, today announced a new collaborative partnership with research and data source the Center for Rural Policy & Development (CRPD), ...

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, ...

Rural America's health equity is inseparable from its economic well-being, and aligning these two crucial fields is essential for achieving true rural prosperity. The people who know this best are ...

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 ...

Economists say that rural America enjoyed a brief, pandemic-era revival that is now over. Manufacturing has slowed, immigration has stalled, remote work is being rolled back and rural hospitals face ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled a sweeping set of initiatives last week aimed at strengthening rural economies, safeguarding American farmland, and prioritizing U ...

Rural Canada is vital to the socio-economic fabric of this country. Rural communities are places of employment, food production, energy generation, resource extraction, environmental stewardship, ...

Over the past decade, the strengthening of data systems has significantly improved governance, especially at the grassroots.

Vietnam’s ethnic policy stands at a turning point, shifting focus from short-term support to building long-term development ...