Member States retain the right to decide who can receive renewable energy subsidies, and can exclude green electricity produced abroad from subsidy programmes. With its decision in the Ålands Vindkraft case, the European Court of Justice assured the continued existence of renewable energy...

Madagascar, Africa's largest island state, remains one of the least-developed countries in the world after decades of slow economic growth, unstable governance and political turmoil. About 65 per cent of its population lives in rural settings, mainly relying on subsistence-oriented farming...

Agriculture is the largest contributor to Kenya's GDP, and it employs 61 per cent of the country's workforce, mainly represented by smallholder farmers living in rural settings (Muriuki, 2011; FAO, 2014). Within agriculture, the country's livestock dairy sector has special importance. Kenya is one...