The Commission is in the middle of approving new programmes for rural development. [<a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?lang=en&language=en&ref_site=photo ...

BBC Scotland's rural affairs correspondent Ken Rundle investigates the impact of Rural Development Programmes on Scotland's countryside. Over 90% of Europe is classified as 'rural,' with rural areas ...

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

Rural development is a continuous process that goes beyond infrastructure, requiring innovation, new production methods, and community transformation. This perspective was underscored by Lê Minh Hoan, ...

Within its universal coverage, UN Women's mandate (GA resolution 64/289) is to lead, coordinate and promote accountability of the UN system to deliver on gender equality and the empowerment of women ...

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 ...

A briefing session for all Divisional Secretaries across the country on the government’s flagship “Praja Shakthi” national programme, implemented to strengthen social empowerment and ensure the fair ...

A leaked document reveals that the European Commission is considering a major overhaul of the EU’s long-term budget by merging the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) with cohesion policy under a single ...

Mangaluru: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the rural development activities of Dharmasthala institutions that empower women are fit to be part of govt policy. She was speaking ...

Dr. Prashant Prabhakar Deshpande has post-graduated in Economics with a Gold Medal in 1976 and was awarded a Ph.D in Social Sciences from Nagpur University in 2007. The July 2025 round of the Rural ...