October 22, 2018
Science has increasingly made it clear that the world is on an unsustainable growth model where economic development is occurring at the expense of the environment. The need for a well-balanced approach has therefore become a necessity rather than a luxury.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2018/10/supporting-moroccos-quest-close-usd24-billion-green-investment-gap/
July 26, 2019
Jennifer Handondo, a small scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family’s needs. Because of uncharacteristically high temperatures and low rainfall during the rainy season in March, the divorced mother who single-handedly supports her three children, has not been able to harvest as much as she usually does. So she has diversified into selling seedlings of neem, Moringa and other medicinal trees.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2019/07/money-grows-on-trees-dont-uproot/
December 14, 2018
As negotiations at the United Nations conference on climate change come to a close, the highest expectation is that finally, there will be a rulebook to guide countries on what should be done to slow down greenhouse gas emissions that make the earth warmer than necessary, and how countries can adapt to the impacts of climate change.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2018/12/african-media-poorly-represented-united-nations-climate-change-negotiations/
September 5, 2018
“This season, the month of May was particularly hot and dry,” says Leo De Jong, a commercial farmer in Zeewolde, in Flevopolder, the Netherlands. Flevopolder is in the province of Flevoland, the largest site of land reclamation in the world. Here a hectare of land costs up to 100,000 Euros. “At the moment, we are spending between 20,000 and 25,000 Euros per week on irrigation.”
https://www.ipsnews.net/2018/09/climate-change-becomes-reality-check-north/
May 15, 2018
As negotiators concluded ten days of climate talks in Bonn last week, climate finance was underlined as a key element without which the Paris Agreement’s operational guidelines would be meaningless.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2018/05/climate-finance-paris-agreements-lifeblood/
October 30, 2016
The Paris Agreement on climate change is set to enter into force on Nov. 4, after it passed the required threshold of at least 55 Parties, accounting for an estimated 55 per cent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions, ratifying the agreement.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/10/africa-and-the-paris-agreement-which-way-forward/
July 18, 2016
Albert Kanga Azaguie no longer considers himself a smallholder farmer. By learning and monitoring the supply and demand value chains of one of the country’s staple crops, plantain (similar to bananas), Kanga ventured into off-season production to sell his produce at relatively higher prices.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/07/rewriting-africas-agricultural-narrative/
June 16, 2016
It’s just after two p.m. on a sunny Saturday and 51-year-old Moses Kasoka is seated outside the grass-thatched hut which serves both as his kitchen and bedroom.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/06/building-africas-energy-grid-can-be-green-smart-and-affordable/
May 9, 2016
Over 600 delegates representing at least 570 million farms scattered around the world gathered in Zambia from May 4-7 under the umbrella of the World Farmers' Organisation (WFO) to discuss climate change, land tenure, innovations and capacity building as four pillars on which to build agricultural development.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/05/wfo-calls-for-farmer-centred-sustainable-development/
January 27, 2016
With El Nino affecting countries in southern Africa, threatening agricultural production due to a massive heat wave, the World Food Programme has urged the international community to support the upscaling of climate smart agricultural technology for resilience.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2016/01/wfps-chief-calls-for-support-for-those-most-vulnerable-to-climate-change/
October 31, 2015
It is slightly after 10 o’clock in the morning and 48-year-old Felix Muchimba of Siamuleya village in Pemba district has just finished having breakfast – a traditional drink called
Chibwantu, made of maize meal and grit.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/10/how-climate-change-threatens-zambias-already-fragile-nutrition-record/
August 21, 2014
“Last season, I lost an entire hectare of groundnuts because of a prolonged drought. Groundnuts are my hope for income,” says Josephine Chaaba, 60, from Pemba district in southern Zambia.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/08/zambias-cash-transfer-schemes-cushion-needy-against-climate-shocks/
July 24, 2014
For the last 13 years, Michael Ndah, 37, has worked for three road construction companies in Cameroon, but it is only in the last two years that his current employer has managed to register him with the National Social Insurance Fund (CNPS).
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/07/social-protection-needed-to-reduce-africas-inequalities/
January 11, 2024
Far from the mayhem, destruction, and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the South African government argued in the International Court of Justice in the Hague that it had an obligation and a right to bring a case to halt a genocide by the Israeli government and its military.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/01/palestine-nothing-can-justify-genocide-its-not-the-time-for-silence/
May 29, 2014
When Malawi's President Joyce Banda said that last week's elections were fraudulent and riddled with rampant irregularities, social media went viral calling her a loser.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/05/malawis-president-joyce-banda-gains-support-fraudulent-election-recount/
October 4, 2009
For 70 minutes, the girls in the distinctive gold-and-green jersey of Brazil shut out the attacks by the visiting team. The bare feet of chubby-faced left back Njavwa Silungwe are lively in defence.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2009/10/zambia-orphans-learn-life-skills-through-soccer/
September 29, 2004
It was not something expected of a president who was roundly denounced as being a front man for his predecessor, when he took office.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/09/corruption-malawi-mutharika-bites-the-hand-that-fed-him/
January 24, 2004
Malawi's three main opposition parties have pulled out of a coalition deal that seeks to wrestle power from the ruling United Democratic Front in the May 18 general elections.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/01/politics-malawi-main-opposition-parties-pull-out-of-coalition-deal/
January 22, 2004
With just under four months remaining before Malawi’s general elections, local activists and international observers have expressed concern at the lack-lustre response to voter registration efforts. The registration exercise has also prompted opposition parties to cry foul.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/01/politics-malawi-voter-registration-dogged-by-poor-planning-and-apathy/
January 12, 2004
Corrupt 'fat cats' continue to walk around with their heads held high even though they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/01/corruption-malawi-fat-cats-still-bask-in-glory/
October 21, 2003
Local economists have welcomed Monday's decision by the International Monetary Fund to resume aid to Malawi, but warned government to keep its promise of fiscal discipline through cutting over-expenditure in non-priority areas such as foreign travel.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2003/10/economy-malawi-imf-resumes-lending/