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.

The goal was simple but ambitious: to build a global youth collaboration network capable of addressing pressing issues such as food security, rural revitalization, and sustainable development. At the ...

Adedimeji gave the charge in a lecture titled , “Overcoming Economic Crisis and Multidimensional Poverty: Exploring Pathways ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

The Chinese model offers a powerful counter-narrative: effectiveness and results trump ideological purity. Africans are ...

To understand the changing economics of the African countryside, talk to Jovelence Kemizano. Her banana garden slopes into a bucolic valley in Bushenyi, western Uganda. It is too small to feed her ...

How we measure poverty shapes how we understand it. Traditional indicators such as income, consumption, and asset ownership provide useful benchmarks but often fail to capture the daily realities of ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...