By Mary Kasoka Mwiikisa Bweengwa Member of Parliament, Michelo Kasautu, has called on Parliamentarians to encourage their communities to consider agroecological farming practices in the wake of climate change. The lawmaker says organic farming is one way of ensuring food security, especially during extreme weather
By Mary Kasoka Mwiikisa Can Agroecology feed Africa? This is the question journalists from several African countries had to answer at the end of Journalist Training on African Agroecological Entrepreneurship and Territorial Markets. Organised by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), the training
By Josiah Mpofu Agricultural stakeholders from across Africa reiterated the need to chart a new path for the continent’s food systems. The delegates drawn from regional bodies such as the African Union, The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), and the Common Market for
By Jeff Kapembwa Brazil’s plans to host the annual Conference of Parties (COP 30) next November will face a backlash from non-climate change campaigners, who prefer agribusiness over the protection of forests and indigenous people, who are threatened by the calamity. The annual Indaba is
By Jeff Kapembwa The severity of climate change on the planet needs joint global action to minimize its impact but the fight needs global collaboration to attain sustainable development and reforming the international financial architecture, campaigners have agreed in unison. The Fourth International Conference on
By Jeff Kapembwa The just-ended food conference hosted by Rome reminisced wide-spread effects of drought on agriculture and other growth sectors globally with a clarion call for stringent measures to counter the crisis and facilitate a return to food security. And Zambia has regretted the
By Jeff Kapembwa LEADING member of the Bretton Woods institute, the World Bank, ahas weighed in on the impact of climate change on the planet with a call for people and business houses to adapt to climate induced weather changes, a threat to children and
By Jeff Kapembwa Brazil has earmarked BRL 4.7 billion (US$727.3 mln) to host the Conference of Parties (COP) 30 in Belém, Pará, the Amazon areas next November, premised on enhancing the country’s sustainability of the rainforests and other environmental concerns buffeting the country. In the
By Helen Witti PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has called on the Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) to consider carbon trading. President Hichilema stated that the solar plant generates electricity without burning fossil fuels, resulting in zero greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide; as such, ZESCO can
By Jeff Kapembwa AFRICA’s quest to reduce climate change impact on the environment and its inhabitants carries both political will and profit despite concerted efforts to save the over 3 billion-population on the continent from GreenHouse Gases (GHGs). The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the continent’s
