Food Security Index praises resilience of women in rural areas who are turning to small-scale farming and local food networks ...

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.

One in three South Africans is out of work, and more than half of young people aged 15 to 34 cannot find jobs. Though poverty ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of ...

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 ...

Extreme poverty remains a major challenge across parts of Africa, with new data showing that millions continue to live on ...

In Africa, people move to urban areas largely to escape rural poverty. The rural exodus often leads people to settle on the outskirts of towns in informal settlements, where they give up subsistence ...

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 ...

Minister of Human Settlements, Thembisile Simelane, has shed light on the devastating impact of poverty, gender-based ...

Stewart is the former U.K. Secretary of State for International Development and the President of GiveDirectly. This week, U.S. Secretary Janet Yellen is in Senegal, Zambia, and South Africa on a ...