Sub-Saharan Africa could lose a significant percentage of its meat and milk production to environmental stresses as climate change threatens cattle farming in poor countries.

Africa must be weaned off the need for Russian wheat, believes the African Development Bank (AfDB) who has announced plans to raise $1 billion to achieve this goal. This, as global wheat giant Russia continues its war on Ukraine.

The climate crisis is threatening food stocks in sub-Saharan Africa, but a comprehensive approach to food, farming and resources could increase crop production by more than 500% in some countries in the region, according to new research by more than 200 experts.

While the UK government has been considering a ban on imports of hunting trophies, the South African government recently approved an annual maximum quota of ten legal trophy hunts of endangered black rhinos for 2022.

Rising global hunger in recent years has prompted calls for a broad reckoning over what is wrong with global food systems.

When it comes to building the future of energy in Africa, the decisions facing the continent’s leaders today are nothing less than of historical importance.

Regenerative agriculture could transform farming in Africa, increase food production through better land and water management, create millions of jobs and help trap greenhouse gasses - combating climate change.

Nanotechnology is one of the engines of the fourth industrial revolution

Maize production in some of the sub-Saharan African countries that dominated maize supplies during the 2021/22 marketing year is expected to be lower this coming season.

The latest climate science reaffirms that global catastrophic weather conditions in the past decade can be attributed to climate change.

Sub-Saharan African countries find themselves facing another severe and exogenous shock. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted a surge in food and fuel prices that threatens the region’s economic outlook.

Food systems are responsible for 80% of the world’s deforestation, 70% of freshwater use and contribute to 40% of the planet’s land degradation says a recently published report by the U.N.’s Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

Ensuring equal rights in ownership and control over land for women and men is essential to achieve gender equality (SDG5) and eradicate poverty (SDG 1).

The world's biggest insurers are expanding in Africa, looking to tap growth promised by a rising population and middle class, but climate change could complicate their quest for profits.

It was just before the arrival of the rains in the South African Lowveld, when the heat seems relentless.

Horn of Africa countries are facing some of the most severe drought conditions in decades, raising concerns that smaller harvests of principal grain crops will exacerbate food insecurity, and necessitate far higher amounts of food aid and imports. 

Jomo Kenyatta famously said, "Our children may learn about heroes of the past, our challenge is to make ourselves architects of the future".

Trophy hunting is a controversial and multifaceted subject.

 Watching workers poke avocados from the treetops in an orchard owned by Kenyan agriculture firm Kakuzi, managing director Chris Flowers revels in the thought some might soon go to the crown jewel of emerging consumer markets: