By Jeff Kapembwa The severity of the 2026-27 El Nino which has hit the ground in some parts of Europe and headed for Africa, needs urgent insulation through securing resilient infrastructure because of its potential to fuel high level food insecurity and affect the…
By Happy Mulolani The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has introduced a digital platform dubbed Field Pulse to strengthen farm record-keeping, improve production planning and decision-making, bring extension services closer to participating farmers, and lay the foundation for wider adoption of digital agriculture. Field…
By Fair Sulwe What 2023/2024 was Really Like? Ask any farmer in the Livingstone or Monze districts in Southern province how 2023/2024 felt and they won’t give you an impassioned treatise on global warming. They’ll tell you about maize that made it to knee-high…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia launched a National Carbon Registry Friday, a state of the art initiative to track, manage, and report carbon project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions in an accurate, timely and transparent manner, an effort to upscale its climate action. The operationalization…
By Happy Mulolani Carbon emissions is one of the priority areas of most climate intervention programmes as it aims at benefiting communities. One of the programmes supporting carbon emissions is; The Eastern Province Jurisdictional Sustainable Landscape Programme (EP-JSLP), a World Bank supported programme implemented…
By Jeff Kapembwa The impending ‘Super El Nino’ El Nino forecast to hover over Africa from 2026-27 may- cost the continent US$20 billion, and demand for US$100 billion in mitigation and adaptation by the close of the decade. The climate induced temperature-driven calamity, and…
By Jeff Kapembwa The construction of the proposed US$17 billion-17,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery in Kenya’s coastal town, Lamu, has faced stiff opposition from climate change campaigners, with many fearing for the ecosystem in the East African nation’s ecosystem. Africa’s richest business icon, Aliko Dangote,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Energy output at Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, rose 13%, raising € 226 million in revenues through June this year compared to a similar period in 2025, a historical rise in performance after an excruciating climate impasse experienced on the regional power project,…
By Jeff Kapembwa An estimated 24 million in Ethiopia and a further tens of millions within and beyond Africa face heightening food insecurity, malnutrition and other climate induced headwinds, fueled by delayed disbursement of about US$900 billion+ World Bank spearheaded Loss and Damage Fund to…
By Jeff Kapembwa Climate change remains a major headwind in Africa’s Foreign Direct Investment destination with the continent attracting a paltry US$70 billion last year, slightly lower than a year earlier, a call for more private sector-led growth trajectory, chiefly in Greenfields, a global…
