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Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.
Solar farms can bring jobs, but the story of one South African community shows that rural residents who give up their land need more say in how benefits are shared.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) today submitted a formal petition to the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) and the relevant select committees regarding the controversial debt collection practices of the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank). Kobus van den Berg, Freedom Front Plus MP and member of […]
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Chinese lenders have invested billions in African agriculture. But new research shows the money often misses what’s needed to modernise the sector.
Previous rains and grain stocks could reduce the impact of the expected drought.
The increasing control of rural agricultural land by urban residents has implications for rural people and spaces.
New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.
USAID’s closure, while painful and damaging, might give rise to a new arrangement beyond aid.
New research indicates that collective forms of governance were more likely.
Diesel has become South Africa’s shadow infrastructure system by compensating for failures in electricity generation and freight rail.
Science can only change the world when societies decide to give it the means to do so.
Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
The critical shortage of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccine is creating mounting pressure on farmers as calving season is around the corner. While the crisis worsens, farmers are losing calves and herds are increasingly weakened. A farmer in the eastern Free State informed the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) that more than 50% of his calves […]
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Road counts over 16 years revealed declines in populations of birds of prey in South Africa.
Trance states may influence the movements depicted in rock art.
For many of the weavers, the work is more than a livelihood, it is a legacy
South Africa is moving to regulate groundwater more tightly as demand and climate pressures grow, but the draft rules still fall short in important ways.
They are calling on government to move away from “false solutions” to the Just Transition
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
By 2100, rural African dwellers will be exposed to dangerous levels of heat nearly twice as high as those in urban areas.
Madagascar’s protected area forests have 2.5km buffer zone forests surrounding them that also need urgent protection.
About 80 learners from the Enon farming community have been without scholar transport this year
Minister Parks Tau opposes liquidation, says it will cause a “jobs bloodbath”
Women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal have had to abandon their fields because the government has failed to maintain irrigation systems built in the apartheid era.