Poverty in a Rising Africa, the first of two upcoming reports on poverty in Africa ... Poverty reduction has been slowest in fragile countries, the report notes, and rural areas remain much poorer, ...

The 48th IFAD Governing Council concluded with a collective call to action to accelerate investments in rural communities, ...

Rural poverty accounts for nearly 63 percent of poverty worldwide, reaching 90 percent in some countries like Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this ...

Nearly one in 11 people in the world and one in five people in Africa go hungry every day, a crisis primarily driven by chronic inequality, climate change, conflict and economic instability. At the ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report. The report, "Decade of Destitution? Severe Lived ...

Collectively, women from Sub-Saharan Africa spend about 40 billion ... Agriculture is a Means to Eradicate Extreme Poverty, Especially for Rural Women Despite women's lower overall employment ...

Poverty in many parts of the world — especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the challenge of ending extreme poverty is greatest — is a strikingly rural phenomenon. For the rural poor, trade and ...

The research was prompted by studies showing that 36 percent of the population in Africa lives in extreme poverty ...