McWhorter gave details on the $45 million in funding earmarked for the TN Rural Development Fund. Rural economic development is a popular topic for Gov. Bill Lee, who spoke during a Nashville ...

In sunny Zambia, fewer than 6% of rural people have access to electricity, leaving over 94% in darkness. Zambia could tap into solar power to light up its rural areas, but this potential has yet ...

In sunny Zambia, fewer than 6% of rural people have access to electricity, leaving over 94% in darkness. Zambia could tap into solar power to light up its rural areas, but this potential has yet ...

Many of these programs provided pivotal social services for rural communities that do not have the resources to fill these gaps without federal funding. In Cortez, Colorado, Montezuma School to Farm ...

Over 80 rural hospitals across the U.S. have closed labor and delivery facilities since 2022, impacting access to maternal care. The bipartisan Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act aims to address this ...

Isaac Makonko has witnessed 90 years of evolving challenges in rural Zambia. A lifetime spent in Kafulafuta, a small village of just over 5,000 people, has given Isaac a front-row seat to the ...

New Delhi: For years, marketers have relied on the narrative of “aspirational Bharat" to fuel rural campaigns—one that framed India’s villages as digitally connected, upwardly mobile and ...

About 20 per cent of Canadians live in rural, remote, Indigenous, coastal or northern communities, according to Rural Economic Development Canada. These communities are facing many of the same ...

Rural hospitals are placing their bids for maternal health grants that some rural obstetric providers have been able to parlay into permanent funding. The rural maternity program known as RMOMS ...

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban voiced concerns over a potential economic crisis brewing in rural America, dubbing it the “Red Rural Recession”. Cuban, in a post on BlueSky ...

An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs. Village chickens in Petauke, Zambia.Credit ...

In Zambia, Mwale’s village of Chitandika in the Chipangali district got its mini-grid in 2019. The country has since embarked on a plan to bring power to 1,000 rural communities over the next ...