The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.

Indonesian villages have been rated among the most attractive local areas in the world, offering nature, authentic cultures and local life. Indonesia is set to develop and promote rural tourism in its ...

Nathan Williams, assistant professor at the Golisano Institute of Sustainability, has long been fascinated with solving complex problems. Williams’ passion was in mathematics and physics, but his ...

James Sumberg received funding from Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the UK government. Rachel Sabates-Wheeler received funding from Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the UK ...

770 million people in the world don’t have access to electricity. Many of them are on the African continent. In rural Africa there are at least two reasons for this: lack of disposable income and lack ...

This table tracks the rural population in 53 African countries using available data from 1960 - 2023. In Africa, a large portion of the continent’s population - about 80% reside in rural areas but ...

Until recently, a store selling groceries in a village in Zambia couldn’t sell cold drinks: It didn’t have access to electricity to power a fridge. But the store now has a solar panel on the roof ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in ...

For emerging markets in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, transmission and distribution have long been overlooked and underinvested, despite its critical role in delivering energy services to the ...

KFC has launched a new pan-African campaign that explores the dual lives many young people across the continent navigate between urban living and their family homes.imageContrast The campaign focuses ...