By Jeff Kapembwa African leaders need to innovate, be practical, decisive and bold in its fight against hunger taunting over 3 billion inhabitants and spurred by climate change coupled with global financial shocks, among other factors escalating poverty on the continent, an African bank says….
By Happy Mulolani Zambia has experienced the worst drought this year which has not only hit the agriculture sector but also negatively impacted various sectors of the economy. This situation has impacted on the food production of the country’s smallholder farmers who produce approximately…
By Chiluba Kawimbe “Innovative technologies in a changing climatic environment” was the theme for the 2024 Golden Valley Agriculture Research Trust (GART) National Seed, Horticulture and Aquaculture fair in Chisamba district of Central province. The Golden Valley Agriculture Research Trust fair is meant to…
By Jeff Kapembwa Leading lenders, World Bank and African Development Bank have extended capacity to three of the Southern African states to help realign economic growth trajectories using the private sector as front wheels while seeking to reduce poverty in rural homesteads and insulate the…
By Mary Kasoka Mwiikisa On a hot sunny afternoon, we take a drive to Chongwe’s Kanakantapa area, a resettlement agricultural scheme established in the 1990s. This was in response to the country’s economic crisis then, which resulted from plummeting copper prices on the international…
By Jeff Kapembwa Despite Sweden facing similar climate crisis, it willing to extend a hand and help Zambia overcome its drought stricken economy which has left many households vulnerable, says Ambassador to Zambia Johan Hallenborg. Zambia is reeling from a tirade of climatic change…
By Mary Kasoka Mwiikisa The impact of global warming is costing African nations up to 5% of their economic output, the United Nations climate chief said on Thursday, calling for more investments to help adapt to climate change. Despite contributing far less polluting emissions…
By Jeff Kapembwa AFRICA needs to transform the agriculture sector through various interventions to make it resilient against climate change and other global shocks that compel the continent to endure the global food crisis, the African Union has noted. The resurging climate change has…
By Mabvuto Banda Over 75 percent of Southern Africa is covered by semi-arid and arid ecosystems with more than 70 percent of the population relying on agriculture. With rich biodiversity and valuable ecosystem services, about 25 percent of productive land is threatened by soil…
By Mary Kasoka Mwiikisa Veronica Chilufya passionately recounts one of the climate change stories she worked on a few months ago, focusing on how extreme weather conditions affect people with albinism. “It’s one of the stories that exposed me to the bigger picture of…
