As I stressed earlier in a blog post here, despite the unprecedented global momentum behind championing clean cooking, the challenge of sustained adoption remains formidable today, just as it was during the first wave of improved cookstove programmes in the 1970s and 1980s (see, for example, here, here, here and here). The adoption that counts, …
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Advancing Poverty Eradication: Reflections and My Priorities for 2026
Fieldwork in Southeast Asia, 2016: Engaging with lived experiences A world free of poverty remains a distant aspiration, since we are off track to meet the “No Poverty” target by 2030. Does that mean, then, that we are losing the war on poverty? Certainly not. Ending poverty within our lifetime remains possible, as I shared …
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Child Poverty: The Global Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight
Reading the 2025 Child Poverty in Australia report, I found myself wondering: How often do we actually talk about children living in poverty? Certainly nowhere near as much as we should! Too often, in fact, children in poverty remain on the margins, both within academic research and in practice. Granted, there are studies on child …
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Poverty’s Stubborn Persistence, Clean Cooking and Climate Change: The 2025 Global Poverty Wake-Up Call that No One Can Afford to Ignore
Global poverty remains stubbornly persistent. The just-released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report delivers a hard truth: the world is losing the war on poverty. In previous years, as I blogged earlier here, the number of people living in acute multidimensional poverty has hovered above 1 billion, and nothing much has changed today: 1.1 …
Carbon projects could indeed help end poverty, but only if they are rooted in the right poverty worldview
In my efforts to contribute to poverty eradication, I have heard stories of large sums of money being given to the poor and considerable support for livelihoods as a strategy for eradicating poverty. I have also witnessed significant investments in education, which is regarded as a key solution to poverty. I have observed, too, many …
Blessing Gweshengwe PhD 