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 ...

Young farmers in Ethiopia, Ghana and Malawi are less likely than older farmers to use improved seeds and fertilizers or receive advice from extension officers. Many governments are concerned about the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This is a guest post by Owen Cylke. Mr. Cylke is a development professional and a ...

2 November 2017, Rome – A first atlas to offer a better understanding of complex rural migration patterns in sub-Saharan Africa has been published today. The atlas – Rural Africa in motion. Dynamics ...

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 ...

Go into any rural African village and one of the major status symbols is a radio. An exciting soccer game might be playing on a hazy black and white TV set complete with rabbit ears and powered by a ...

GONE are the days when African rural areas were associated with backwardness. With many indigenous food commodities like wild fruits and tubers from rural areas commercialising themselves through ...

Glenn Denning is Director of the Earth Institute's Millennium Development Goals Centre in Nairobi, in which he played a lead role in its establishment. He joined the Institute at Columbia University ...

Each weekday, hundreds of thousands of children and teenagers in South Africa's rural areas (which make up just over 31% of the country's total area) make the journey to school. It's often difficult.

African American communities in rural Ohio began not long after Ohio became a state in 1803. Kenyon College professor Ric Sheffield says many people still aren't familiar with this side of Ohio's ...