Southern Rural Development Center

The Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) is hosted by Mississippi State University and seeks to strengthen the capacity of the region's 30 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.

The SRDC goals include:

• Stimulate the formation of multi-state research teams
• Coordinate the development and revision of educational materials and maintain a centralized repository of educational resources
• Organize and deliver high-priority rural development research and educational workshops/conferences
• Provide leadership for the preparation of science-based rural development policy reports
• Build partnerships that link the South's land-grant university system with other key entities committed to rural development activities in the region

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