By Jeff Kapembwa Three Zambian agribusiness Small Medium Entrepreneurs have received a US$90,000 fillip to implement climate-smart agriculture projects to assist farmers, women, and youth joining the country’s quest to enhance food security. The grants from the World Bank in collaboration with various partners including
By Jeff Kapembwa China-owned Sino Great Group, through its subsidiary Sino Great Chemical Company Limited, and Zambia's Wonderful Group of Companies Limited have commissioned a US$340 million environmental friendly phosphate producing plant in Zambia, authenticating United Nations’ call for reduced gas emissions by 2035 to save the
By Jeff Kapembwa Africa’s stunting agriculture spurred by climate change and other headwinds has come under review, prompting state and non-state actors to re-think strategies to transform the sector and bolster agrifood output by 45 percent by 2035. The 10-year strategy and action plan is
By Natasha Mhango Gweembe district in Southern province is a valley, which means its inhabitants are subject to high temperatures and unpredictable rainfall patterns. These conditions are challenging for any farmer. Furthermore, the prolonged drought of the 2023/2024 farming seasons affected the area, therefore worsening
By Jeff Kapembwa Innovation to fight El Niño induced drought in Zambia, has heightened with players in the energy sector, including the regulator, applying ingenuity to plug the deficit buffeting the sector and drive the wheels of the economy. Zambia, like many other Southern African
By Jeff Kapembwa FALL army worms-catalysed by necessity of dry spells in low rain patterns-a climate change action-have returned to Zambia and threaten the 2024-25 farming season as over 10,000 hectares of land in several parts of the country are being eaten up, a call
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 climate
By Jeff Kapembwa With global investments touted around US$3 trillion, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has joined interest groups seeking to reverse and restore natural habitat in the climate threatened Kafue Lower Basin. The United Nations estimates the cost of reversing the degree of
By Jeff Kapembwa Climate change effects buffeting Zambia need proactive actions including maximizing climate financing mechanisms to insulate against its effects and avert reversing economic gains made by the Southern African state, environmental sustainability campaigners say. Zambia has in recent years been buffeted by El
By Jeff Kapembwa What many perceive climate change as a passing phase, is now a contrast as its extremes now pose food insecurity caused by salinisation (salt water) and reducing crop yield, losses, the United Nations food agency-FAO attests. Its major assessment of salt-affected soils
