The Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) has been honored with the prestigious Africa Food Prize for 2023, recognizing their exceptional leadership in the development of numerous bean varieties that improve farm productivity and profitability, and meet increasing consumer demand. The announcement was made by Africa Food Prize Chairperson, former Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete during the…
African Women, Gender Constituency demand climate finance as grants not loans
By Lenah Bosibori The Africa Women and Gender Constituency has called on African governments to give women climate finance in the form of grants, as they are the most affected by the climate crisis. Speaking during the third day of the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in Nairobi, Priscilla Achakpa, and the Women Environment Programme…
Inaugural Africa Climate Summit ends in anti-climax
By Imali Ngusale The Africa Climate Summit has ended in Nairobi with an outcome that is satisfactory to none but to the political class. However, an overwhelming majority of the non-state actors left disappointed and disillusion by the Summit’s final Nairobi Declaration. “The Declaration is a disappointment and portends a doleful outcome for COP28,”…
ACS 2023: African States duped by the global stocktake process
By Imali Ngusale As the Global Stock-take discussion processes gather steam, it is emerging that Africa, with the greatest burden of negative climate impacts could be required to to build resilience to climate impacts without any financial aid. The global stock take process began in 1972 when nation States consented Article 14 of the Paris…
Climate change: Smallholder Farmers want financial backing
By Lenah Bosibori Phoebe Mwangangi is a smallholder farmer from Makueni County, a semi-arid area that receives minimal rainfall. Despite the minimal rainfall in the area, Mwangangi says that they are able to farm drought tolerant crops like sorghum, millet and cowpeas through the use of new innovative techniques that are fit for their…
Dar es Salaam Gathers 4000+ Delegates to Address Africa’s Food Systems Transformation Goals
The 13th annual Africa Food Systems Forum is set to convene from September 5th to 8th, 2023, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Under the leadership of H. E Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president of the United Republic of Tanzania. The Summit themed Recover, Regenerate, Act: Africa’s Solutions to Food Systems Transformation will provide a platform…
Africa Climate Week: Ruto calls for raised climate financing, technology transfer
Two months to the 28th UN Climate Change Conference COP28 set for Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) late November, Kenya’s President William Ruto has called the developed countries to increase financing climate action and technology transfer to help Africa sustainably manage her climate-threatened economies and societies. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Africa Climate…
African Women meet in Nairobi, launch the Women Gender Constituency pressure group
By Imali Ngusale As Nairobi’s vibrancy reaches a crescendo, the world remains fixated on the Africa Climate Week set to commence in less than 24 hours. In light of this, African women in all their diversities met in Nairobi to launch the Africa Women and Gender Constituency and unpack their lived experiences that have disproportionately…