PUTRAJAYA: The Rural and Regional Development Ministry has identified five key focus areas as the foundation for the planning and implementation of rural development programmes to ensure sustainable, ...

Multifunctional agriculture encompasses the deliberate integration of food production with a spectrum of environmental, social and cultural functions, thereby transcending traditional productivist ...

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 ...

India, June 1 -- India's growth story over the next two decades will be shaped as much by the rise of its villages as by the ...

Sri Lanka, June 2 -- The "Gam Dahasak Wada Dahasak" rural development project, implemented under the Praja Shakthi National Poverty Alleviation Programme, was officially launched today (02) in the ...

The Department of Agriculture will not be shy about asking Congress for help on cybersecurity and IT, the agency’s undersecretary for rural development nominee told senators Wednesday. Smith co-signed ...

An effective education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) both develops STEM literacy skills and can prepare students for high-quality, well-paying careers. There have been ...

Agriculture is an important part of development and poverty mitigation in low income countries. It depends on infrastructure such as good roads, safe drinking water, adequate power supply, a market ...