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Five decades of rural transformation: IFAD's greatest successes

Frédéric Noy paints an intimate portrait of the largest country in Central Asia, of its society and its transformations.

Photojournalist Pascal Maitre, a specialist in Africa, paints a portrait of a now-endangered ancestral way of life.

Sub-Saharan Africa has an electricity problem. While the world as a whole has made great strides when it comes to providing access to electricity (the world average is now 90 per cent with access, up from 83 per cent in 2010), southern and western African

Sub-Saharan Africa has an electricity problem – how can governments fix it?

Sub-Saharan Africa has an electricity problem – how can governments fix it?

Published on: Saturday, February 06, 2021 By: Bernama Text Size: Bunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia. (Pic: Pascal Maitre) Kuala Lumpur: The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has recently obtained the Department of Standards Malaysia’s recognition under the Laboratory Accreditation Scheme of Malaysia (SAMM). MPOB Director-General Dr Ahmad Parveez Ghulam Kadir said the accreditation could enhance the results from studies and analy...