Water Scarcity

Imagine waking up before dawn every day to fetch water for your family. You trek to the nearest water source, miles away, with only a jerrycan to carry the precious liquid. You brave scorching heat or heavy rain, while trying to avoid dangerous animals and strangers along the way. This…

The beer and spirits giant will devote up to £450,000 ($527,000) to innovations focused around the key areas of water, carbon and biodiversity impacts. Targeting smallholders across AfricaAs part of its 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress'​ ESG action plan, Diageo pledges to build resilience in its communities and monitor its farming…

If Africa wants to leapfrog its infrastructural hurdles, then it must look beyond its own pockets to bridge its huge financing gap. This emerged during the Africa 50 general shareholders meeting held in Marrakech, Morocco on July 19. Africa 50 is an investment bank for infrastructure in Africa that focuses…

Verticroft Holdings, is the Middle East-focused food security and sustainable agriculture-focused holding company with portfolio companies in Agri-tech, precision agriculture cultivation, livestock breeding, food security, food distribution, and F&B. Dubai, United Arab Emirates Jun 10, 2021 (Issuewire.com)  - Verticroft Holdings- The World’s Most Sustainable Animal Feed. Humanity's future poses serious threats…

As coronavirus infections continue to rise in Egypt, the country also faces other serious threats. How will Egypt deal with urgent challenges such as the Ethiopian dam crisis and Nile water scarcity, rising military tensions in Libya, and long-marginalized regions including the Sinai? This event will be held via YouTube…

Jeff Skoll has been funding pandemic preparedness for more than a decade, even longer than Bill Gates. In recent months, he’s increased his philanthropic giving to help combat Covid-19. Nine years ago, Jeff Skoll’s film company Participant Media partnered with Warner Brothers to put out Contagion, a movie about a…

By Tshego Lepule Jun 20, 2020CAPE TOWN - The poor are largely invisible to policy-makers until there is a crisis. This is according to Jay Bhagwan, executive manager at the Water Research Commission, in response to how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing governance failures such as water management in…

Toumaï, "hope of life" in Gorane, is the name given to the oldest human ancestor discovered in Northern Chad two decades ago. But where humanity is believed to have begun, it is slowly being threatened by the consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Landlocked, Chad faces substantial obstacles, including growing security…

Unilever, the owner of Dove, Marmite and Knorr, is to invest €1bn (£900m) to help reduce the impact of climate change throughout its production and distribution processes. Working alongside farmers, governments and organisations in the next decade, the climate and nature fund aims to restore forests, soil and biodiversity, with…

The top 20 agricultural producing countries in the world are the top performers in world agriculture-  a vital element for world livelihood. Agriculture is one of the indispensable sectors of the world economy which is not only one of the highest revenue earners worldwide, but also one which caters to…