This story was originally published by UGA Today. If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t give too much thought to where your food comes from. And you likely pay even less attention to the ...

Rural women have historically played a vital role in American farming, often performing the same tasks as men. The decline of small farms and the shift from a rural to an urban economy led to the ...

VB-G RAM G Bill provides for a 60-day pause during the 'peak agriculture seasons' of sowing and harvesting. But there isn’t ...

In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. For Shyanne McCoy, 23, that meant the ...

Across China, many women with rural hukou are systematically denied lucrative village land rights. Village assemblies, ostensibly autonomous local political organizations, decide who is a member of ...

Walter S. DeKeseredy receives funding from West Virginia University.. I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my students are surprised by the information on ...

Problem: About 20% (~60 million) of Americans live in rural areas. Due to the complex social, economic, and environmental issues, people living in rural areas are more likely to die prematurely from ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...