In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time ...

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 ...

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Development work on 76 rural roads will commence from January 1, 2026, under the government’s Road to Revival programme, aimed at improving living standards in rural areas, the Ministry of Transport, ...

Billions of dollars are invested in the transport sector (16 percent of lending by multi-lateral development banks since 2000), yet measuring how these investments translate into intended impacts is ...

Jenny Milne is affiliated with Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) and the Scottish Rural and Islands Transport Community (SRITC). Her part time PhD is part funded by the Energy ...

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 ...

The USDA Rural Development is a lifeline to economically depressed rural towns where Trump is popular but the Trump Administration has damaged the agency. It's been a turbulent couple of months at the ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins speaks with reporters outside the White House, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Reductions in staff and office closures loom ...