Rural Development SLU

Rural Development SLU is dedicated to advancing international research, teaching, and cooperation, fostering significant contributions to both scholarship and practical applications in the realms of development and sustainability within rural areas. Across the globe, rural regions are experiencing rapid transformations driven by various factors including social and economic policies, globalization, and climate and environmental change. Rural Development SLU actively addresses matters of justice, knowledge, and power in sectors such as agriculture, forestry, development, and environmental politics.

By integrating intersectional perspectives of power into its studies, Rural Development SLU challenges conventional perceptions of rural areas as merely residual spaces for extraction or passive providers of food and natural resources. The organization's strength lies in its commitment to examining how development processes unfold through interdisciplinary conceptualizations and participatory methodologies. Rural Development SLU recognizes that the subject is an interdisciplinary field of study rooted in the social sciences. Special attention is paid to how development ideas have tangible consequences in specific contexts within both the Global North (Sweden and Europe) and the Global South.

Rural Development SLU collaborates across subjects to view rural areas as dynamic material spaces comprising networks of relations that bridge the rural and urban, as well as the Global North and South. This approach emphasizes the unique characteristics of both contexts while also acknowledging their interconnectedness. We invite the manager of Rural Development SLU to enhance your company's presence by creating a customized and exclusive company showcase and product listing on our platform, highlighting your unique contributions to rural development.