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 Pulse
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 but
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 of
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 through
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 feared
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, plans
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, according
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 militate
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 economic
By Jeff Kapembwa Temperatures, estimated to drop to a low 20°C, spurred by Cool Airflow Cloudy, and Windy Conditions, is forecast to hover over Muchinga, Eastern, Lusaka, and Southern Provinces of Zambia from July 6-10, a clarion call by experts for all, children chiefly, to
