By Chintu Malambo Nearly 50,000 smallholder farmers in Zambia have already adopted climate-smart technologies under the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia (SIFAZ) project, a €32 million European Union–funded initiative aimed at transforming agriculture and strengthening resilience against climate change. The seven-year…
By Dominic Nali SHANG’OMBO District in Western province stands as a testament to resilience amid relentless drought. This harsh reality the district is going through has cast long shadows over on the education system, leaving children to bear the brunt of drought caused by…
By Jeff Kapembwa The ravages of climate change are being felt globally, and in Zambia, campaigners want to collaborate, devise and conserve the forest and the environment sustainably under a joint systematic and long term roadmap to mitigate the impact. While various parts of…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia and Zimbabwe-wary about the climate change impact on energy are putting heads together to strategise on fool-proof infrastructure and insulate against the weather driven calamity through power investment strategies at key hydro power plants with help from cooperating partners, among…
By Jeff Kapembwa The surging climate change impacting countries and the planet, calling for insulation against the crisis has prompted Zambia to launch a ‘Green-self-financing model’, making it one of the African states advancing climate-resilient, nature-positive and low-carbon development. Zambia, like many African countries,…
By Jeff Kapembwa AS climatic effects continue afflicting the planet, scientists have “come up with a burden of proof–how the young trees can help in removing spots of carbon from forests endowed with such natural exposure. A report found at key universities including Leicester…
By Jeff Kapembwa The first-ever G20 leaders’ summit-hosted in Africa, brings a ray of hope for mitigating climate change and other induced emergencies, debt included, occurring globally-a call for an unequivocal and joint action. The historic summit under the South African G20 Presidency held…
By Jeff Kapembwa The woes buffeting Zambia’s Kafue Plains-grappling with run-down-ecosystem-human and climate induced are seemingly being answered-thanks to the US$3 trillion United Nations propelled global fund set to induce a new lease of life in natural habitats. The fast depleting and Zambia’s much…
By Jeff Kapembwa The 20th meeting of the Group of the Group of Twenty (G20) opened in South Africa Friday with the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres reminding the world, chiefly the rich nations to uncoil the continent-long embroiled in multiple shackles of…
By Jeff Kapembwa As the COP 30 in Belem inches closer to winding down, the United Nations has reminded developed nations, key polluters to seek to mobilise US$1.3 billion in the next 10 years with US$300 billion expected to be raised in the next…
