Strengthening Rural-Urban Linkages in Africa to achieve food security
This is the forth event in the series ‘Frontiers in Development Policy’ and it will analyze the importance of the
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Information is everything: how private actors are shifting Kenya’s household energy landscape
In this blog, Leo Roberts (ODI), stresses the importance of the private sector in shifting the energy landscape in African countries. The analysis focuses on Kenya.
The controversial effects of villagization in Ethiopia and the role of the EU in Africa’s urbanization
Vittorio Capici stresses the importance of urbanization and the implications this process brings with itself. In this blog the author picks Ethiopia and the ‘Villagization program’ as a case study to further his analysis.
Philanthropy and Africa’s demographic growth: Finding allies to support the potential of young people
Emmanuel de Groof and Sanne Thijssen suggest that political leaders can find allies in philanthropists – and vice versa – to open the dialogue on family planning and to drive the potential of African youth. Population growth is in itself not a problem; however, it can become one when a country’s economy and infrastructure do not follow suit.
Renewable energy mini-grids in Africa: a private sector’s perspective
Rebecca Symington and Aaron Leopold describes what are obstacles for private investment in renewable energy in Africa.