By Jeff Kapembwa Kenya seeks a staggering 25 million tons of maize to close the food deficit and feed over 50 million populace afflicted by the recurring El Nino induced drought and other headwinds. The recurring climate induced crisis in the 58 million populated…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Africa Food Systems Forum hosted by the Rwandan capital, Kigali, closed Friday, with calls for actualization of the Kampala Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan 2026-35 touted to make agriculture sector the continent’s mainstay and ensure…
By Jeff Kapembwa The 2026-27-impending El Nino, dubbed ‘the strongest in history’, may characterise floods, drought, extreme heat across Africa among other headwinds, a call by climatologists for the continent to seek resilience. With an estimated 162 million children with an addition 50 million-all-at…
By Jeff Kapembwa In the next 72-hours, over 5,000 experts in food related knowledge will converge in the Rwanda capital, Kigali to discuss the continent’s much touted Kampala Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), a blueprint to revolutionalise and make the agriculture sector a…
By Jeff Kapembwa The 20th Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), summit opened for deliberations in Kampala capital, Kigali, with former Nigerian Head of State, Geoduck Jonathan reminding Africa to maximize its food security potential and improve its food system. The summit dubbed: “Investing…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Investment Holdings (ZCCM IH) has invested a staggering ZMW1 million into climate-action related activities as global campaigners amplify the call for sustained resilience against multiple headwinds. The diversified investment holding company, managing the Zambian government’s minority…
By Jeff Kapembwa Rwanda will in october be a haven to 30 countries, Zambia included, expected to showcase their expertise and resolve to fight climate change when the East African state hosts the Carbon Markets Africa Summit (CMAS) 2026 next month. The Kigali Convention…
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…
