This issue of Community Investments focuses on rural community and economic development issues, highlighting ways that practitioners and policymakers are shifting their efforts toward the development ...

Midlands-North-West MEP Maria Walsh paid a recent visit to Moate where she met with Irish Rural Link to discuss the challenge ...

How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? The labor-intensive, extractive industries paradigm that has long powered rural economies—think agriculture, manufacturing, mining, ...

AMES, Iowa — During Orange City’s three-day tulip festival each May, the northwest Iowa town attracts roughly 40,000 visitors, more than six times its population. People come for the blooms and ...

Rural community development encompasses a broad spectrum of policies, practices and research devoted to improving the quality of life and resilience of populations living outside major urban centres.