IBM has revealed the five significant changes driven by innovation in science and technology that will transform every stage of the food supply chain within the next five years...
3 days ago
According to new data presented in joint UN report the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, 237 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa are suffering from chronic undernutrition...
3 days ago
Speaking at the inauguration of the Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome this week, FAO director-general José Graziano da Silva said a major focus on boosting the agricultural sectors and promoting rural development in Africa is needed...
29 Jan 2019
More than ever before, in 2018 we saw sustainability playing a major role in shaping trends in the retail sector...
Feroz Koor 25 Jan 2019
Excelling at this year's Zayed Sustainability Prize annual awards ceremony, African innovators took the top prize in three out of five categories including Energy, Food and Global High Schools...
24 Jan 2019
The focus of innovation in the conscious consumption space is certainly not trend based. The environmental and health issues facing the planet are so pressing...
Robyn Smith 24 Jan 2019
Agricultural sectors across Africa need their own green revolution building on local knowledge and culture, as well as a green disruption building on new digital and other technology...
Xolani Mathibela 2 Jan 2019
Africa today is not yet affected by overtourism, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't travel more sustainably...
Martin Tvede Larsen 12 Dec 2018
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa...
Kate Gannon, & Declan Conway 6 Dec 2018
The winners of the first Google Impact Challenge Africa award were announced last week...
4 Dec 2018
Palm oil can be found in food and cosmetics everywhere: in fact, half of the world's population uses palm oil in food...
Jake Bicknell, Eleanor Slade and Matthew Struebig 19 Nov 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa produces approximately 62-million tonnes of waste per year, including plastic waste, according to the World Bank...
Eleni Mourdoukoutas 12 Nov 2018
The AfDB is leading efforts to wake the 'sleeping giant' that is the African savannah and turn it into the cradle of the continent's green revolution...
8 Nov 2018
The spectre of climate change reared its ugly head in June 2018, when the dammed lake that supplies Bouake, the second largest city of Cote d'Ivoire, ran dry, leave the city without water.
23 Oct 2018