The gendered rural energy poverty impacts and climate vulnerability
Image Source: The Borgen Project Through research and development, it is established that the lack of energy is as unsustainable as the overuse of energy. In our energy-yearning ordeal, energy harness and its security plays a vital role in sustainable development. This, thus manifests so intricately such that, the more we become developed, the more energy we use, and vice versa. One of the most fundamental issues that challenge the very being of us, poverty—widely conceptualised in a number of ways; economic and social. But the dimensions of research that conjuncts poverty and energy in rural regions of Africa is, however minimally explored. Along this breath, the tail of a complex problem which remains an ongoing dent on sustainability waggles—Energy Poverty. Widely defined, energy poverty is the lack of access to sustainable and affordable, clean energy services. Economically, the lack of energy and poverty often go hand in hand, both at national and rural levels, in African r...