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Energy Access Is Key to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Recovery

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy
A young South African woman holds up a cloth face mask next to a sewing machine.
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy
Initiatives
Aerial view of Dar es Salaam after flooding.
Initiatives

Energy Access Explorer

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Insights

This Man Wants to Pull 60,000 Rwandans Out of Poverty by Planting Trees

  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • restoration
  • Forests
Planting trees in Rwanda
  • deforestation
  • drought
  • agriculture
  • food security
  • restoration
  • Forests
Insights

Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Rangers checking Forest Watcher. Photo by Lilian Pintea
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • Equity & Governance
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Research

Going in the Right Direction?

Insights

3 Myths and Facts about Forest and Landscape Restoration

  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • deforestation
  • mapping
In Rwanda, 85 percent of the population makes a living from subsistence farming of degraded, formerly forested lands. Photo Credit: Gates Foundation/Flickr
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • deforestation
  • mapping
Insights

Farmer Innovation: Improving Africa’s Food Security through Land and Water Management

  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Food
  • food security
Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer, digs planting pits to restore degraded land. Photo credit: Chris Reij, WRI
  • agriculture
  • restoration
  • Food
  • food security

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
Data

Tsetse Distributions, Uganda

  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
Data

Dairy Development Hubs and Poverty Rate by Subcounty, Uganda

  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
Data

Poverty Density by Subcounty in High Milk Surplus Areas, Uganda

  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
Data

Poverty Rate by Subcounty in Milk Deficit Areas, Uganda

  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
Data

Uganda: Potential Milk Surplus and Deficit by Parish, 2002

  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping
Data
  • agriculture
  • poverty
  • mapping