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From Diesel to Daylight: How Solar Power Is Transforming Uganda’s Dairy Belt

The bigger test is whether the finance can follow, and whether a solution proven at a few dairy centres can become a solution for African…

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1.5°C Is Slipping Away. This Is What Happens Next.

This summer’s heatwaves scorched cities, wildfires raged across continents, and floods swept away homes and livelihoods. According to a new report from the UN Environment…

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Closing the Gap: Why Investors Are Looking Twice at the Sahel

At AFSF 2026, ministers and financiers made the case that the Sahel agriculture and livestock sectors are an investment opportunity

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Africa Holds the Ore. It Doesn’t Hold the Price

A tonne of raw concentrate and a tonne of refined metal command different values in the markets that matter.

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“We Are Not Seeking Handouts”: Africa’s Farmers Demand a Seat at the Table as $100 Billion Food Pledge Moves to Implementation.

The call emerges at AFSF 2026 as governments, investors, development partners and farmer organisations meet to deliberate implementing CAADP

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After 20 Years of Dialogue, Africa Food Systems Forum Demands Action

For Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 Managing Director Amath Pathe Sene, the anniversary should force the forum to look beyond its achievements

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Africa Has the Technology to Keep Its Vegetables Cold, Hard Part Is Scaling It

For a farmer whose vegetables are losing value due to a lack of cold, reliable refrigeration, the most immediate gap is harvest and market.

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Power the Plate: Inside the Africa Food Systems Forum’s Push to Fix a Continent-Wide Vegetable Gap

During the pre-summit day of the Africa Food Systems Forum (AFS Forum), held in Kigali to mark two decades of food-systems transformation

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Land conservation initiatives are crucial in safeguarding the environment and mitigating the effects of climate change. By promoting actionable information and best practices, we can enhance restoration efforts and drive meaningful change. 
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Wangari Maathai was well-known as a political, social, and environmental activist. In 1977 she started a grass-roots movement aimed at countering the deforestation that was threatening the means of subsistence of the agricultural population.

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From Diesel to Daylight: How Solar Power Is Transforming Uganda’s Dairy Belt
From Diesel to Daylight: How Solar Power Is Transforming Uganda’s Dairy Belt

The bigger test is whether the finance can follow, and whether a solution proven at a few dairy centres can become a solution for African SMEs

1.5°C Is Slipping Away. This Is What Happens Next.
1.5°C Is Slipping Away. This Is What Happens Next.

This summer’s heatwaves scorched cities, wildfires raged across continents, and floods swept away homes and livelihoods. According to a new report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), these are previews of what’s coming, because global temperature rise is now…

Closing the Gap: Why Investors Are Looking Twice at the Sahel
Closing the Gap: Why Investors Are Looking Twice at the Sahel

At AFSF 2026, ministers and financiers made the case that the Sahel agriculture and livestock sectors are an investment opportunity

Africa Holds the Ore. It Doesn’t Hold the Price
Africa Holds the Ore. It Doesn’t Hold the Price

A tonne of raw concentrate and a tonne of refined metal command different values in the markets that matter.

“We Are Not Seeking Handouts”: Africa’s Farmers Demand a Seat at the Table as $100 Billion Food Pledge Moves to Implementation.
“We Are Not Seeking Handouts”: Africa’s Farmers Demand a Seat at the Table as $100 Billion Food Pledge Moves to Implementation.

The call emerges at AFSF 2026 as governments, investors, development partners and farmer organisations meet to deliberate implementing CAADP

After 20 Years of Dialogue, Africa Food Systems Forum Demands Action
After 20 Years of Dialogue, Africa Food Systems Forum Demands Action

For Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 Managing Director Amath Pathe Sene, the anniversary should force the forum to look beyond its achievements

Africa Has the Technology to Keep Its Vegetables Cold, Hard Part Is Scaling It
Africa Has the Technology to Keep Its Vegetables Cold, Hard Part Is Scaling It

For a farmer whose vegetables are losing value due to a lack of cold, reliable refrigeration, the most immediate gap is harvest and market.

Power the Plate: Inside the Africa Food Systems Forum’s Push to Fix a Continent-Wide Vegetable Gap
Power the Plate: Inside the Africa Food Systems Forum’s Push to Fix a Continent-Wide Vegetable Gap

During the pre-summit day of the Africa Food Systems Forum (AFS Forum), held in Kigali to mark two decades of food-systems transformation

Africa’s Youth Are Doing Biodiversity Work, Why Isn’t the Global Data Showing It?
Africa’s Youth Are Doing Biodiversity Work, Why Isn’t the Global Data Showing It?

Target 22 of the Global Biodiversity Framework calls for equitable and inclusive representation of women and girls, children and youth

KWAL Becomes First Kenyan Manufacturer to Achieve EDGE Green Certification
KWAL Becomes First Kenyan Manufacturer to Achieve EDGE Green Certification

Kenya Wine Agencies Limited (KWAL) has become Kenya’s first manufacturer to earn the globally recognised EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) certification, marking the end of an eight-year journey to build one of the country’s most energy-efficient factories.…

Inside Africa’s First Round-the-Clock Solar-Plus-Battery Plant
Inside Africa’s First Round-the-Clock Solar-Plus-Battery Plant

On the red earth outside Kolwezi, in the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Copperbelt, more than 357,000 solar panels now sit beneath the same sun that has long shaped life in the region. Although these panels…

At COP17, Pastoralists Demand More Than Recognition as Rangelands Take Center Stage
At COP17, Pastoralists Demand More Than Recognition as Rangelands Take Center Stage

For pastoralists the issue is not whether the world recognises their role in rangeland restoration but who shapes policies controls resources

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