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Africa poverty
Africa
Africa
Insights
August 14, 2019

Closing Sub-Saharan Africa’s Electricity Access Gap: Why Cities Must Be Part of the Solution

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • electricity
  • Africa
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
power line in Kenya
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • electricity
  • Africa
  • poverty
  • sustainable development goals
Energy
Initiatives
June 14, 2019

Energy Access Explorer

kutch sunset.jpg
Cities
Africa
Insights
April 17, 2019

Q&A: One Woman Aims to Save Kids’ Lives by Redesigning the Roads They Walk

  • Urban Transformations
  • Prize for Cities
  • health and road safety
  • poverty
  • public health
  • sustainable cities
Ayikai Charlotte Poswayo
  • Urban Transformations
  • Prize for Cities
  • health and road safety
  • poverty
  • public health
  • sustainable cities
Cities
Africa
Insights
April 3, 2019

Urban Transformations: In Tanzania’s Capital, Safer Children Mean Better Neighborhoods

  • Urban Transformations
  • health and road safety
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • public health
  • Urban Development
Children in Dar es Salaam
  • Urban Transformations
  • health and road safety
  • human rights
  • poverty
  • public health
  • Urban Development
Africa
Africa
Insights
November 29, 2018

How Distributed Solar Helps Pregnant Women in Rural Kenya

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • Africa
  • energy security
  • health
  • Kenya
  • poverty
  • renewable energy
  • solar
Maasai woman
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • Humans of Clean Energy
  • Africa
  • energy security
  • health
  • Kenya
  • poverty
  • renewable energy
  • solar
Africa
Africa
Insights
July 28, 2015

How Ethiopia Went from Famine Crisis to Green Revolution

  • Food
  • Forests
  • Water
  • degraded lands
  • Africa
  • agriculture
  • agroforestry
  • food security
  • poverty
  • re-greening
  • restoration
Ethiopia is now greener than it has been in the last 145 years. Photo by Chris Reij/WRI
  • Food
  • Forests
  • Water
  • degraded lands
  • Africa
  • agriculture
  • agroforestry
  • food security
  • poverty
  • re-greening
  • restoration
Governance
Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America
Insights
September 23, 2013

Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • equity
  • governance
  • millennium development goals
  • poverty
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable development goals
  • united nations
This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • equity
  • governance
  • millennium development goals
  • poverty
  • sustainable development
  • sustainable development goals
  • united nations
Food
Africa
Insights
July 31, 2013

3 Unexpected Ways to Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • creating a sustainable food future
  • Africa
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • world resources report
  • creating a sustainable food future
  • Africa
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • world resources report
Governance
Initiatives
June 27, 2013

Land and Resource Rights

A man fishing on a boat in a river surrounded by fields.
Governance
Africa
Insights
April 10, 2013

Without Land, What Would a Farmer Do?

  • Africa
  • agriculture
  • governance
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty
  • Africa
  • agriculture
  • governance
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • poverty
Governance
Africa
Research
October 1, 2010

Mapping a Better Future

Africa
Data
September 10, 2010

Tsetse Distributions, Uganda

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

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