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| During the 2016/2017 financial year, South African companies are estimated to have invested over R9bn in corporate social investment, compared to R1.5bn 20 years ago...read |
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 | Dr Bipasha Baruah and Dr Kate Grantham In contemporary global development circles, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are now performing many more roles and activities than they did a few decades ago... read |
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 | Conserving and restoring soils, as a major carbon storage system, is critical for both sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate change. FAO launched a comprehensive global map showing the amount of carbon stocks in the soil... read |
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 | The development of oil, gas and coal energy must stop in order to avoid the worst ravages of global warming, 80 top economists said Thursday, 7 December, days ahead of a climate summit in Paris... read |
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 | The heads of several of the world's space agencies have proposed the creation of a climate observatory to pool acquired data and share it with scientists around the globe... read |
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 | Issued By Udumo Group Udumo Group aims for prosperity in its most profound sense: the uplifting empowerment of those who need and deserve it most. Udumo gives the gift of dignified lives... read |
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 | Issued By Trialogue Corporate social investment (CSI) consultancy Trialogue has shared an extensive range of material on its free online portal, known as the Trialogue Knowledge Hub... read |
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 | Open to anyone with an adventure or goal they'd like to kick-start, the Afrika Tikkun #AdventureFundraising campaign is off to a daring start... read |
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 | Mountain Zebra National Park in the Eastern Cape celebrated ten years since the reintroduction of cheetahs in 2007 on International Cheetah Day... read |
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 | Hosted by The Enviropaedia, the 2018 Eco-Logic Awards is now open for entries. The awards ceremony will take place 5 June... read |
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 | This festive season Gautengers will descend on a drought-ravaged Mother City, putting more strain on water supply. They will be encouraged to exchange five kilos of their on-flight baggage allowance for five litres of water... read |
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 | Sindy Peters Professor Adipala Ekwamu, executive secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RuForum), gave an inspiring keynote presentation at the third International Conference on Global Food Security held in Cape Town this week. read |
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 | Toast Ale South Africa has plans to produce a craft beer that utilises surplus bread from local companies, which would otherwise be discarded... read |
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 | Finding enough to eat has been an ages-old challenge for Africans. Against a physical environment often hostile to agricultural and pastoral activity... read |
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 | Cari Coetzee The third International Conference on Global Food Security had thought leaders from across the globe gathering to share their views on food security... read |
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 | Aphiwe Deklerk Cape Town's proposed "drought charge" will pay for the survival of Capetonians‚ says mayor Patricia de Lille... read |
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 | Sindy Peters Food Forward South Africa has over the last two years developed a virtual platform that allows it to streamline how it carries out its mission... read |
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 | StreetSmart Knysna has raised R90,000 for Knysna NGO Sinethemba Projects which runs programmes for vulnerable children, boosting community upliftment in the area... read |
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 | Time magazine named as Person of the Year "the silence breakers" who triggered a national reckoning by revealing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, assault and abuse in US life... read |
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 | Royce Turner and Andrea Wigfield The fire at Grenfell Tower has catapulted high-rise social housing into the public consciousness, in a way not seen since the 1960s... read |
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 | Along with the inaugural Greenovate Engineering Award, environmental game-changers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) took first place in this year's Greenovate Awards... read |
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 | Dave Chambers Liquid gold has been discovered at the University of Cape Town... read |
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 | William Mzimba We are living in an era of abundance - we have all the resources required to solve humanity's biggest challenges. The activating ingredient is the ability to innovate... read |
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