A core responsibility of a chamber or local economic development agency is to support the economic vitality of the communities they serve. Success requires paying attention to trends in society so ...

The huge increase in global food production in recent decades has come at a high cost for the environment. Half of the habitable land is now used for agriculture. As a result of the rapid growth in ...

The Ministry of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation announced that the second phase of the national ...

Between 2009 and 2020, Paraguay promoted the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices among target beneficiaries (249,662 direct beneficiaries, 53 percent of whom were women). The project ...

India’s JEEViKA program (literally translating to livelihoods), financed by the World Bank, is the country’s largest state-level program working exclusively with women from poor rural families across ...

Community Development Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4 (October 2016), pp. 534-551 (18 pages) Abstract Tourism is recognized as a rural development mechanism in terms of its socio-economic contribution towards ...