USDA’s Rural Development mission area needs enough staff at the local level to help producers take advantage of the array of available RD programs, witnesses told a House Agriculture Committee panel ...

This article appears in the October 2024 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. With the possibility of another Trump presidency, Democrats have directed much media attention toward ...

GT: At the Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2025, General Secretary Xi emphasized "We should still take rural revitalization and the development of the work concerning agriculture, ...

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 ...

A hybrid mini grid station powered by solar energy in Nigeria. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images Rural electrification is crucial to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7: “access to affordable, ...

The Braun administration has published a rural economic development plan for Indiana. It looks a lot like plans offered by GOP and Democratic governors over the past 75 years. Indeed, the only element ...

This article is authored by Ashok Thombre, legal advisor, Focus Academy.