In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time ...

Judith Fisher doesn’t want to be that small-town parent nagging her children for rides for everywhere she goes. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

An urgent reconsideration of rural development is needed for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The current strategies and patterns of rural development are failing to meet either ...

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 ...

We are now approaching a full year of living with COVID-19 and the restrictive conditions of lockdown. Its impact on travel networks, particularly public transport, has prompted plenty of discussion, ...

Western Illinois University’s Rural Transit Assistance Center has launched a new podcast aimed at spotlighting the challenges and innovations shaping transportation in rural communities across ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] Rural transportation needs face a significant funding deficit that will be compounded by the coronavirus pandemic’s blow to state ...

The USDA Rural Development is a lifeline to economically depressed rural towns where Trump is popular but the Trump Administration has damaged the agency. It's been a turbulent couple of months at the ...