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 ...

Across Africa, agriculture contributes 32% to Africa’s GDP and employs 65% of the labour force on the con tinent, according to the World Bank. That notwithstanding, the people who drive the sector, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think Forward is a blog written by staff of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy covering sustainability as it intersects with food, rural development, international trade, the environment ...