Theme Overview: Rural Wealth Creation
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Promoting rural wealth creation in the United States is a high priority of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and of a growing number of rural development organizations. Secretary Vilsack argued in 2009 that USDA “must help rural communities create wealth so they are self-sustaining, repopulating and thriving economically”, and this is one of the four goals of USDA’s current strategic plan—with the word “prosperity” replacing the word “wealth”. Achieving sustainable prosperity requires creating and maintaining wealth, broadly defined (Arrow, et al. 2010; Pender, Marré, and Reeder 2012), so this change in wording does not change the importance of rural wealth creation to achieve this goal. Many community and rural development organizations and researchers have advocated an asset-based approach to community and rural development in the past few decades.
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