USDA Rural Development has served as a conduit for getting federal funds into “some of our smallest communities and rural small businesses,” said Erin Oban, state director for USDA Rural Development.

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 ...

In California’s Tulare County, the adjacent towns of Cutler and Orosi have long benefited from USDA rural development programs that have helped provide access to water and sewer systems and housing ...

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 ...

ural development globally faces interconnected challenges, including poverty, food insecurity and lack of economic opportunities, inadequate infrastructure and the impacts of climate change. These ...

The interim government has taken an initiative to amend existing laws for renaming three prominent rural development academies in the country. The names of Gopalganj's "Bangabandhu Poverty Alleviation ...

The government released FAQs on the Viksit Bharat-G RAM G Act, 2025, confirming it replaces Mahatma Gandhi National Rural ...