By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia celebrated its second bumper harvest of maize crop in a row amid warnings of an impending climatic driven crisis that threatens food security in the Southern African bread basket Amid the country’s expected 4.9 million metric tons of the staple…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia has weighed its support towards the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD14), multilateral banks and other players’ economic transformation agenda on the continent with a call to scaled-up investment in climate resilience, financial inclusion, agriculture, rural transformation, and food systems…
By Jeff Kapembwa An El Nino induced weather pattern that caused drought and dwarfed food production in Southern African regional countries, is forecast to recur early next year as Zambia launches the US$4 million Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF), an early warning facility to…
By Jeff Kapembwa The Just ended Africa-France summit resolved among other landmark decisions to support Africa revolutionalise its agriculture sector and help rebuild the continent’s worsening food production that threatens millions of people with starvation. The leaders in their commitments reiterated their commitment to…
By Jeff Kapembwa Leaders that converged in the Kenya Capital Nairobi for the landmark Africa–France Summit last week, resolved in unison to support unwavering investment into Africa and tap into the continent’s stunted growth. The two-day indaba agreed on criss crossing matters including mobilising…
By Jeff Kapembwa -Zambia’s quest to strengthen its climate action through sustained reduced GreenHouse Gases (GHGs) emissions by the close of the decade, inched closer as espoused under the Green Growth Strategy. Zambia, one of the African countries tormented by the crisis and in…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia’s quest to populate climate change and its impact on the ecosystem has begun in earnest with a call to the media to assimilate the science and ‘truthfully and accurately’ join in sensitising the public on the effects of the crisis,…
By Jeff Kapembwa Zambia and Norway signed a US$420 million financial transaction for carbon credit exchange as the country in the country’s quest to transition into renewable energy and insulate against climate change that dwarfed sector growth. A carbon credit deal, according to energy…
By Maziko Phiri, This year marks 20 years of AGRA advancing agricultural transformation across Africa. Milestones like this invite reflection. But more importantly, they challenge us to ask a deeper question: what comes next? From Zambia’s perspective, AGRA@20 is not simply about looking back…
By Jeff Kapembwa AFRICA’s food security is under-threaten and may force millions of inhabitants under acute hunger with the looming prices fertiliser-chiefly urea are focused to escalate above 70 percent by the close of the first quarter this year if the conflict between United…
