While climate change has led many high-income countries to increase their efforts to improve energy efficiency and to invest in renewable energies, households in low-income countries still face ...

Rural communities face challenges, making the ability to adjust investments to changing conditions an important part of ...

Most commercial fertilizer travels a long way before it reaches rural farmers in Kenya. Transportation costs force many farmers to rely on cheap, synthetic fertilizers, which can lead to the ...

The lab inside a van that provides portable HPV testing in rural Kenya. Photo by: Sara Jerving / Devex On a dusty rural road in western Kenya, what looked like an unremarkable van was pulled to the ...

More and more of Kenya’s farmlands are coming under the control of people who live and work in urban centres. Over the past two decades, the proportion they control has grown to nearly a third of ...

Over the last few years, agency banking has emerged as a powerful force in bridging the financial inclusion gap, particularly in the rural and underserved regions of Kenya. Through a network of agents ...

Millions of Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC rural customers are spending a paltry Sh3.34 daily on electricity in what has failed to lift the sales of the utility firm in tandem with the sharp increase in ...

The global urban-rural divide is deepening. Despite widespread population shifts from rural to urban living, 85 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas and face significant employment, ...

While the report does not reveal causes for the disparities in property ownership between rural and urban women, the dynamics of cost could be playing a huge role since land in rural Kenya is cheaper.

Sonali Verma is a Rose Service Learning Fellow and a Master of Public Health candidate in the Department of Global Health and Population. As a health systems researcher hoping to amplify the voices of ...