Zambian Churches Slow to Use ‘Socio-political Influence’ to Fight for Climate...
Joe Hamwata, a conservation farmer Pemba district, southern Zambia is one of the many vulnerable here bearing the blunt of climate change. Courtesy: Friday PhiriBy Friday PhiriLUSAKA, Jun 29 2014...
View ArticleZambia’s Cash Transfer Schemes Cushion Needy Against Climate Shocks
Allens Malambo, an orphan from Pemba in southern Zambia is a beneficiary of the government-run Social Cash Protection Scheme. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriPEMBA DISTRICT, Zambia, Aug 21 2014...
View ArticleFinancial Inclusion Key to Climate Risk Reduction for Zambia’s Smallholders
Zambian farmer Neva Hamalengo (right) knows what it means to lose crops to the ravages of weather and have no insurance coverage. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriMOYO, Pemba District, Zambia,...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Threatens Zambia’s Already Fragile Nutrition Record
By Friday PhiriPEMBA, Southern Zambia, Oct 31 2015 (IPS)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...
View ArticleImproved Post-Harvest Fish Handling Brings Hope to Western Zambia
Hadon Sichali has been in the fish trade for over 22 years. But he says only now does he feel a true businessman—but why? “Because I now make reasonable income after struggling for so many years,” said...
View ArticleAfrica Hangs its Agricultural Transformation Agenda on COP 21’s Outcome
By Friday PhiriPARIS, France, Dec 7 2015 (IPS)A famous saying goes: To whom much is given, much is expected. This is the message that the African Development Bank (AfDB) is carrying and delivering for,...
View ArticleTackling Climate Change in Africa: Europe’s Solution to the Migrant Crisis?
By Friday PhiriPARIS, France, Dec 11 2015 (IPS)As thousands of Africans arrive in Europe every month, often risking their lives aboard shaky boats to get to a better life, lack of access to energy...
View ArticleWFP’s Chief Calls for Support for Those Most Vulnerable to Climate Change
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...
View ArticleUnsung Heroes of Rural Resilience
In scorching heat, Ellen Kacha, inspects her almost failed maize crop, which now looks promising after a rare occurrence this season — normal rainfall for at least two weeks. Droughts have been a...
View ArticleWorld Farmers’ Organisation Meeting Eyes New Markets, Fresh Investment
Bags of maize at the Food Reserve Agency Depot in Kasiya, Pemba district, Southern Zambia. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriLIVINGSTONE, Zambia, Apr 29 2016 (IPS)‘No Farmer, No Food’ is an old...
View ArticleFarmers Hold Keys to Ending Poverty, Hunger, FAO Says
Dr. Evelyn Nguleka, WFO President, seated with Secretary General Marco Marzano de Marinis. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriLIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 5 2016 (IPS)With recent data showing that 793...
View ArticleFarmers Can Weather Climate Change – With Financing
Merian Kalala, a farmer in Solwezi, capital of the North-Western Province of Zambia, knows firsthand that climate change is posing massive problems for agricultural productivity. With its negative...
View ArticleWFO Calls for Farmer-Centred Sustainable Development
By Friday PhiriLIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 9 2016 (IPS)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...
View ArticleAchieving Universal Access to Energy; Africa Caught Between a Rock and a Hard...
African Heads of State during the official opening ceremony of the AfDB Annual meetings in Lusaka. Credit: Yoka | @vandvictorsBy Friday PhiriLUSAKA, May 30 2016 (IPS)“It is unacceptable that 138 years...
View ArticleAfrican Leaders Make an Economic Case for Increased Nutrition Investments
By Friday PhiriLUSAKA, May 31 2016 (IPS)Africa’s contribution to global malnutrition statistics is miserably high, with 58 million children under the age of five said to be too short for their age,...
View ArticleBuilding Africa’s Energy Grid Can Be Green, Smart and Affordable
A Congolese man transports charcoal on his bicycle outside Lubumbashi in the DRC. An estimated 138 million poor households spend 10 billion dollars annually on energy-related products such as charcoal,...
View ArticleRewriting Africa’s Agricultural Narrative
Albert Kanga's plantain farm on the outskirts of Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire, Jul 18 2016 (IPS)Albert Kanga Azaguie no longer considers himself...
View ArticleSmart Technologies Key to Youth Involvement in Agriculture
A cow being milked by a milking robot. Photo courtesy of Cornelia Flatten.By Friday PhiriBONN, Germany, Aug 23 2016 (IPS)She is only 24 and already running her father’s farm with 110 milking cows....
View ArticleAfrica and the Paris Agreement: Which Way Forward?
Delegates at the Sixth Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA VI), held from Oct. 18-20, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: Friday Phiri/IPSBy Friday PhiriADDIS ABABA, Oct 30...
View ArticleAdaptation Funding a Must for Africa
A panel discussion on means of implementation post-COP 21. Credit: Friday PhiriBy Friday PhiriMARRAKECH, Nov 13 2016 (IPS)The Paris Agreement hammered out at the summit on climate change in the French...
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