The 10th rural conference of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will take place in Memphis, Tennessee on May 19-21, 2015.
The Conference will focus on international strategies to address rural development in the 21st century, including job creation, rural service delivery, urban-rural linkages and diversified rural economic investments.
The theme of this year’s conference is National Prosperity Through Modern Rural Policy: Competitiveness and Well Being in Rural Regions. The conference is supported by the United States, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development.