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 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Industries, Mines, and Energy is actively promoting economic empowerment and inclusion through several key initiatives, as highlighted by Deputy Minister Gaudentia Krohen at the 8th ...

Approved in May 2015, SVEP projects are implemented in blocks across different cities and union territories and are of four-year duration. (Image: freepik) Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme ...

Rural india, where nearly 65% of the population resides, is undergoing a transformative renaissance, laying the foundation for India’s journey towards Viksit Bharat. Traditionally the backbone of the ...

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 ...

Extraordinary Senior Lecturer, Food Security and Safety Niche Area, North-West University Agriculture is an important part of development and poverty mitigation in low income countries. It depends on ...

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 ...