Special Report: How We Grew It

Tracing the History Of Farming Across Africa Gives Clues to Low Production Outputs African farmers need homegrown solutions to improve
The COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting Conservation Efforts in Madagascar The Coquerel Sifaka in its natural environment in a Malagasy national
Banning Fossil Fuels in Sub-Saharan Africa Could Slow the Transition to Renewable Energy Electricity is vital for improving the quality
Resolving Tensions between Global Development Goals and Local Aspirations Women with a loads on their heads crossing river Niger using
Why Local Content in Africa’s Extractive Sector Won’t Work Without Home Grown Human Capital An oil worker stands on the
Massive African Infrastructure Projects Often Hurt, Rather than Help, Local People The Kampala-Entebbe expressway. Andi111/Shutterstock.com Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield
Why Local Content in Africa’s Extractive Sector Won’t Work Without Home Grown Human Capital An oil worker stands on the
Technology in Hospitals Can Delay Care: What Doctors and Nurses in South Africa told us Using technology in routine healthcare
Why Efforts by Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana to Help Cocoa Farmers Haven’t Worked West African cocoa farmers are largely poor
Rooibos Tea: EU Protection is Good News for South African Agriculture GreenArt/Shutterstock Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London and Magali
Sinegugu Zukulu standing against a backdrop of green hills, a river and the sea on the Wild Coast
Sinegugu Zukulu, founder of Sustaining the Wild Coast, on holding a resistance movement together through assassination attempts and murder—while building
PAMS Foundation Antipoaching unit standing under trees
After traffickers murdered their co-director, PAMS Foundation expanded rather than collapsed. Co-founder Krissie Clark shares lessons on building resilient conservation
Community Tree Planting in Cameroon
Limbi Blessing Tata founded Ecological Balance Cameroon in 2016 after recognising that water infrastructure alone wouldn't solve Nkambe's chronic water
Golden Bamboo Lemur
Patricia Wright, primatologist and founder of Centre ValBio, on establishing one of the world's most important tropical research stations.