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Repensar las realidades rurales: cuáles son los desafíos y dónde se encuentran las oportunidades

10 March 2026 Dorothée Allain-Dupré - (OECD)

Reading Time: 6 minutesEn el imaginario colectivo, las regiones rurales suelen evocar imágenes de abandono y decadencia. Sin embargo, esto está lejos de reflejar la realidad. Las zonas rurales albergan al 30% de la población de la OCDE y, en algunos casos, están creciendo más rápido que las ciudades en términos de desarrollo, productividad e innovación. Entonces, ¿por qué las narrativas obsoletas sobre el declive rural siguen eclipsando sus contribuciones? Ha llegado el momento de desmontar los mitos que frenan a estas regiones.

De la informalidad a la inclusión: Compartiendo los recursos rurales de América Latina

04 March 2026 Roxana Glavanov - (OECD) and Amal Chevreau - (OECD)

Reading Time: 4 minutesLas comunidades rurales de América Latina producen gran parte de los alimentos, energía y minerales de los que depende el mundo. Sin embargo, para la mayoría de los habitantes rurales, la promesa de una prosperidad duradera sigue siendo inalcanzable porque a: pesar de esta riqueza, el trabajo informal e inseguro sigue presente, debilitando los medios de vida, servicios y oportunidades a largo plazo.

COGITO Talks… What in the World is the Tropical Economy?

05 February 2026 Ingo Plöger - (CEAL) and Betty-Ann Bryce - (OECD)

Reading Time: 11 minutesImagine a world where rural and tropical regions aren’t struggling backwaters, but breeding ground for fresh ideas, new jobs and sustainable growth.

In this episode of our #FromtheGroundUp series, Betty-Ann Bryce (OECD) sits down with Ingo Plöger (CEAL), for a conversation to explore how tropical regions, with abundant natural resources, rich biodiversity and favourable climate, can become engines of sustainable growth, innovation and resilient rural development.

COGITO Talks… Click, Vote, Grow: How India is “rural proofing” its future

03 February 2026 Shahid Iqbal Choudhary - (Indian Government) and Shayne MacLachlan - (OECD)

Reading Time: 12 minutesIndia’s rural areas are developing at an extraordinary rate, posing both challenges and opportunities to rethink development at a large scale. Recorded live from the OECD Rural Development Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Shayne MacLachlan speaks with Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, Secretary to the Government in the Department of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, about how India’s fascinating track-record of rural transformation can offer practical lessons to policymakers everywhere.

COGITO Talks… Lean on Me: Three pillars for rural prosperity

30 January 2026 Christos Kyrkoglou – (General Directorate for Monitoring and Implementation) and Vasiliki Pantelopoulou - (ESPA)

Reading Time: 9 minutesIn Greece, nearly a third of the population lives in rural areas, well above the OECD average, yet rural and urban communities remain deeply interconnected. From local partnerships to place-based investment, new approaches are reshaping how these spaces work together. What Greece teach us about building stronger rural-urban connections through integrated policy?

COGITO Talks… Roots of Wisdom: Indigenous perspectives for policymakers

21 January 2026 Edson Krenak - (Cultural Survival) and Adwoa Serwaa Ofori - (University College Dublin)

Reading Time: 10 minutesThe 2025 OECD Report Reinforcing Rural Resilience reveals that OECD regions have seen a significant loss of forests, with approximately 10% of their forest cover disappearing between 2000 and 2020. To discuss solution-based approaches to this issue, we do not need to necessarily turn to new innovations or technologies, but rather we can look to past wisdom of indigenous knowledge in how to care for nature in a long-sustaining manner.

COGITO Talks… From vanishing villages to vital visions: The future of rural Kazakhstan

16 January 2026 Zhanerke Kochiigit - (Nazarbayev University)

Reading Time: 10 minutesIn 11 of the 29 OECD countries included in the OECD Reinforcing Rural Resilience report, rural populations are declining. Discussing all things decentralisation, digitalisation and democracy in Kazakhstan, Shayne MacLachlan from the OECD has a conversation with Zhanerke Kochiigit. This conversation took place at the 2025 OECD Latin American Rural Development Conference, Rural-Urban Connections: Pathways to Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Have a listen.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder: Can identities within diaspora revitalise rural regions from afar?

11 December 2025 Jack Waters - (OECD)

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhilst the strong emotional attachment to one’s home can be leveraged to bring back migrants that tackle skills gaps, diaspora populations that remain abroad can bring other benefits back home too. Engaging the diaspora should be understood as more than an effort to entice people to return home. Strong local identities endure long after migration, and policymakers can harness this attachment to mobilise skills, knowledge and investment from afar.

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