African poverty: A grand challenge for sustainability science

When we began to put together this special feature on poverty and sustainability science, we sought significant science-based research and perspectives on poverty worldwide. However, the six articles that have emerged from a lengthy solicitation, preparation, and review process, with one exception, all focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The exception, the absolute poverty measures for the developing world by Chen and Ravallion (1), serve to provide the latest evidence for an African exceptionalism that dominates the development needs of today.

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