rural development Archives

A woman bends to tend a metal pot on a metal cooking stove, with bright orange headkerchief and pink dress under a paisley blue-and-white shawl.

The adoption of renewable energy is transforming women’s lives in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands

Perspective / By reducing cooking time and fuel collection burdens, energy-efficient wood-burning stoves and biogas have empowered women.

13 November 2024 / About Household energy, Pollution and Sustainable lifestyles

Smallholder agriculture and agrarian livelihoods

Other publication / This chapter explores the critical role of smallholder farmers in development, highlighting their unique, vulnerable agrarian livelihoods.

23 August 2024

The political economy of mini-grid electricity development and innovation in Kenya

Journal article / This study analyses political economy factors that can influence the emergence of mini grid electricity development in the African context, focusing on Kenya.

16 July 2024 / About Energy access

Young African woman cooks a meal over a wood-burning fire outside a brick house in Malawi

The quiet triumph of COP28: clean cooking

Feature / We speak with SEI US clean cooking expert Rob Bailis on how COP28 delivered for an issue that affects climate and development alike.

7 February 2024 / About Energy access, Finance, Forests, Household energy, Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

Women transplanting tomatoes at a farm located in the Upper East Region in Navrongo, Ghana.

Gendered dynamics of state-led smallholder commercialisation in Ghana. The case of Nkoranza traditional area

Journal article / The paper examines whether and how new policies for Ghana's agricultural development deal with critical gendered challenges around land tenure.

4 January 2024 / About Behaviour and choice, Food and agriculture and Participation

Not all supply chains are created equal: the linkages between soy local trade relations and development outcomes in Brazil

Journal article / The authors analyze the different relations that exist among farmers, and between farmers and traders in Brazil’s soy sector.

22 December 2023 / About Supply Chains

Man rides bicycle by a roadside stall of charcoal packed in sacks ready for sale to passing cars in Masindi, Uganda

A National Integrated Clean Cooking Strategy for Uganda (NICCS)

Project / The Ugandan government hopes to scale up cleaner cooking options to curb the health and climate damage caused by burning wood and charcoal.

2023 - 2025 / About Behaviour and choice, Energy access, Forests, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Mitigation, Pollution, Public policy, Short lived climate pollutants and Sustainable lifestyles

Workshop on food system transformation in Nairobi

Past event / AgriFoSe2030 will join SIANI to host a workshop in Nairobi on 15 November 2023 themed partnerships and collaborations for food system transformation.

15 November 2023 / About Bioeconomy, Food and agriculture, Supply Chains and Sustainable Development Goals

Woman collecting water from a rural reservoir tank, Taucachi community, La Paz, Bolivia

The WASH-Flows tool

SEI brief / WASH-Flows is an analytical tool to estimate and assess the vulnerability of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services at the household and community level.

10 November 2023 / About Sanitation and Water resources