Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops - particularly rice and wheat - respond to higher CO2 concentrations by synthesising more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains...
Kristie Ebi 13 Jun 2018
Driven in part by an increase in conflicts and climate-induced disasters, the number of child labourers in agriculture worldwide has increased substantially from 98 million to 108 million since 2012 after more than a decade of continuous decline, according to the latest estimates...
13 Jun 2018
The United Nations Environment and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released a report outlining the state of waste management in Africa...
12 Jun 2018
The African Development Bank, together with partners, launched the Coding for Employment programme at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda...
12 Jun 2018
At the end of the century, if carbon emissions aren't reduced faster, the global temperature is likely to be...
Shingirai Nangombe 12 Jun 2018
"We are working with countries to ready them to take climate action in the near future. This includes enabling the poorest families to produce food while adopting low-emission systems and building their climate resilience."
12 Jun 2018
Electricity lifts people out of poverty and improves their health and standards of living. Yet 1.3 billion of the world's people don't have access to it. And more than half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa...
Mercè Labordena 11 Jun 2018
Africa has the dubious honour of being the second most polluted continent on the planet, and therefore must take both the responsibility and opportunity to pioneer world-leading waste management methods...
11 Jun 2018
Underscoring how persistent conflicts and adverse climate shocks are taking a toll on food security, no country exited the list...
11 Jun 2018
"Retailers have been given to January 2019 to use their existing stock of plastic straws. We are going to start an intensive education programme as we also need to present importers with alternatives rather than just stating that we are imposing a ban."
11 Jun 2018
Gender equality is a powerful driver for change and prosperity on the African continent, but brands need to take a leadership role...
Temitope Iluyemi 7 Jun 2018
The Zayed Sustainability Prize is now open for entries from across Africa...
6 Jun 2018
A board of influential African women business leaders has been appointed to strategically position and launch the first regional circles of influence to develop woman leaders in Africa...
5 Jun 2018
On World Environment Day, 5 June, Greenpeace Africa is launching Vuma.Earth - an online campaign platform for citizens to run environmental petitions...
5 Jun 2018
A first-ever gathering in the sub-Saharan African region will be held in Cape Town, bringing together more than 700 people to discuss how to improve the diversity of knowledge represented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites...
1 Jun 2018
Kora aims to engage with existing communities in rural Africa to combat issues that keep communities circling the poverty drain by using blockchain technology in the current financial system in Africa...
1 Jun 2018
Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa's power sector has reached a record-high...
Philipp Trotter and Sabah Abdullah 31 May 2018
Together with healthy agricultural ecosystems, biodiversity provides the ecological foundations for food production, which play a critical role in humankind...
31 May 2018
On top of removing plastic straws from its 650 managed properties by the end of 2018, Hilton revealed it will double its social impact investments and cut its global environmental impact in half by 2030...
24 May 2018
Worldwide, areas suitable for cocoa production are predicted to shrink by up to 20-30% over the next 30 years. This is because cocoa trees are already struggling to cope with drier, hotter conditions...
Philippe Vaast 21 May 2018
