The Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine is creating its first food animal residency program. The program, backed by a $250,000 grant from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), aims ...

The USDA awarded Texas Tech's vet school in Amarillo a $250K grant aimed at strengthening veterinary services in rural and ag ...

Quiet mornings, busy days, fall harvest, and the changing seasons are just some of the reasons we enjoy making our living in rural America. Though we enjoy plenty of perks in our rural setting, being ...

“We’ve got to start looking at mental health differently than what we have done for generations, especially in rural areas,” says Jeff Winton a multigenerational dairy farmer from New York. “Our ...

Rural roots often grow deep—in the communities that serve them—and the people that call them home. The Farm Foundation Forum, Reviving Rural: Agriculture as the Heartbeat of Healthy Communities, was ...

This briefing interrogates ways in which approaches to reduce rural poverty through agriculture in what has been called the 'second green revolution'1 will affect rural farmers, especially women. As ...

The U.S. government has at least 15 different official definitions of the word “rural,” including 11 at the Agriculture Department alone. These definitions apply to different programs, often ...

Nigeria has an ambitious target of reducing extreme poverty as envisaged in the Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy. To achieve this, stakeholders say the solution lies in promoting rural ...

In this article, we will take a look at the 20 countries with the largest rural population in the world. If you want to skip our discussion on the rural economy trends, you can go directly to the 5 ...

Glenn Denning is Director of the Earth Institute's Millennium Development Goals Centre in Nairobi, in which he played a lead role in its establishment. He joined the Institute at Columbia University ...