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AGRF 2020: TAAT Convenes Session on Agrotechnology to Feed Africa
The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is convening a high-level session on “Agricultural Technologies for Feeding the Cities” at this year’s African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). The session will hold on the 8th of September 2020 via the AGRF’s virtual platform. Organised by the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), the AGRF is the world’s premier forum for advancing Africa’s agricultural agenda.
Fifth African Climate Change and Environment Reporting (ACCER) Awards launched
Listen to article The Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) has launched this year’s African Climate Change and Environment Reporting (ACCER) Awards with a call for journalists to embrace the challenges faced now and help find home-grown solutions.
African CSOs on climate change condemn Big Oil plans to ‘Flood Africa with Plastics’
Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, Big Oil is demanding a trade deal that weakens Kenya’s rules on plastics and on imports of American trash. African civil society on climate change, under the umbrella of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), is shocked by the revelations and has condemned in the strongest terms possible any such manoeuvres, and any deliberate attempt to reverse gains achieved to defeat plastics in the world.
TAAT catalyses commercialisation of High Iron Beans in Burundi
Common bean is a major food and cash crop for more than 90% of smallholder farmers in Burundi. Beans provide 20% of required calories and 50% of proteins, and are an entry point to tackle food insecurity, poverty and malnutrition. The current average bean consumption is about 30 kg per person, per year. However, Burundi also has high prevalence of micro-nutrient deficiencies - about 58% of children under five years are stunted, 56% are anemic, 35% are underweight and 7% are wasted.
AfDB excites Nigerian youth with new irrigation technologies for dry season farming
Ayuba Abimiku, a young rice farmer at Gidan Mai-Akuya community in Nasarawa state, North-central Nigeria, is excited. Ayuba is witnessing the operation of a pressured plastic-piped sprinkler for the first time! “This system allows for proper water management and the farmer can determine the right amount of water needed in the field per time,” he enthused. “With this, less water is required, unlike the old method which often floods our farms,” he said.
TAAT opens a new frontier for Wheat in Ethiopia
With an estimated 4.6 million tonnes of wheat per year, Ethiopia is Africa’s largest wheat producer. However, domestic demand is estimated at 6.3 million tonnes with rising incomes increasing the demand for wheat over the last decade. Wheat is mostly grown in the highlands with better rainfall, from which 4 million MT of wheat grain are harvested. Demand for wheat is growing astronomically at 5% per annum, while production is growing at an anaemic rate of 1-2% per annum.
CLAP GH advocates green environment for infection-free living
Environmental group, CLAP GH has reiterated the need for attention to be given to protecting the environment as a means to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. In commemoration of World Environment Day, the group is encouraging individual and group tree planting drives for a clean healthy environment to fight pollution and diseases. About one quarter of global disease is linked to the environment or caused by environmental factors that could be changed, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
GALVmed announces three new projects to accelerate animal healthcare in West Africa
The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) has announced partnerships with three animal health companies in West Africa in a bid to accelerate improved availability of animal health medicines and vaccines to smallholder farmers in the region. The three new partners are Cowtribe (Ghana and Nigeria), LAPROVET (Senegal) and Afrivet (Cote d'Ivoire). Livestock disease remains a critical constraint for smallholders in Africa.
CLAP Gh seeks to halt sentencing of future generations into a hotter planet
The planet’s carbon dioxide (Co2) levels are now the highest in human history. Yet, there is no sign of slowdown in greenhouse gas levels, despite verbal commitments by countries. After greenhouse gases are emitted, they interact with our land, sea and air. The ocean absorbs around a quarter of all Co2 and what’s left behind in the atmosphere is known as ‘greenhouse gas concentrations’.
Solving climate crisis a good way to silence the guns, says PACJA
Under the theme “Silencing the guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa's Development”, the 33rd African Union (AU) Heads of State and Government Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is not fully focusing on climate change. However, the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), which is activity participating in the event, is drawing attention to the climate crisis and how this can contribute to a peaceful continent in the shortest time possible.
PACJA speaks on Racial Discrimination Against Ugandan Climate Activist Venessa
PAN AFRICAN CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE’S STATEMENT ON RACIAL DISCRIMINATION SHOWN TO UGANDAN CLIMATE ACTIVIST VENESSA Media must not join in the discrimination vice, Africans are proud of themselves as they are A voice is heard from Uganda, here in Africa, where occupants are predominantly black. It is a cry. The cry is loud and clear. We can’t take this anymore. We can’t be forced to believe that we are lesser humans or not beautiful enough to appear where white skin is.
Climate-smart Oil Palm Smallholders to boost agriculture and SDGs in four countries
The National Initiatives for Sustainable and Climate-smart Oil Palm Smallholders (NISCOPS) has been launched by Solidaridad in Accra, Ghana. NISCOPS is a five year strategic programme aimed to among others enable governments in key oil palm producing countries to support and work with farmers towards more sustainable, climate smart palm oil production as well as contribute to Paris Agreement, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) objectives and the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs).
African Governments Must Not Take Desert Locust Invasion Lightly, PACJA
Listen to article Desert Locusts are causing havoc in parts of Africa. Mithika Mwenda, Executive Director of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), in an article, has urged African governments to fight the locusts’ invasion to avert food security crisis on the continent.
COP25 failed to deliver on ambitious climate decisions
Listen to article African Civil Society has denounced the lack of firm commitments to deep emission cuts from industrialized countries that reflect the scale and urgency of the unfolding climate crisis. National delegates to the UN climate change conference (COP25) in Madrid failed once more to step up to the existential challenge of the climate crisis, after two weeks of negotiations.
COP25: Why Africa is negotiating finance for loss and damage
It’s difficult for Africa to engage in the climate negotiations without emotions, says Ambassador Tosi Mpanu Mpanu, a top African climate negotiator. As a continent that contributed least to climate change, Africa remains most vulnerable to the impacts – experiencing increasing extreme weather events such as cyclones, droughts, floods and desertification. Historically, Africa is the continent with the lowest carbon footprint.
World Farmers Organization pushes climate-smart agriculture for Africa
The uncertainty in predicting the weather has been the single major challenge to productive farming in Ghana and other parts of Africa in recent years. Access to weather information and irrigation services are among interventions farmers need to survive the unexpected changes.
Africa at the crossroads of taking climate action
Africa is at the crossroads of taking climate action in the midst of an urgency to meet the continent’s development needs. As the urgency to act on climate change grows, international climate policies and the advent of low-carbon technologies are reducing the demand for, and value of, fossil fuels. Carbon tracker estimates that 60-80% of coal, oil and gas reserves could be classified as unburnable if the world is to avoid disastrous climate change.
AfDB takes the continent’s climate agenda to COP25 in Spain
The Bank is playing a leading role in guiding progress on climate change on the continent. The Bank has doubled its total climate change commitment to $25 billion between 2020 and 2025. The African Development Bank has kicked off a campaign to present the continent’s case at the world’s leading climate change conference. The COP25 in Madrid, Spain comes at a crucial time for the globe and Africa in particular.
What kind of just transition is needed to shape a climate resilient future for Kenya?
In this article, Robert Muthami, Programme Coordinator of FES Kenya, explores Kenya’s current efforts and position in ensuring a low carbon, climate-resilient future. Kenya is a global player often leading part in various international discussions linked to the pressing issues of climate change and sustainable development. The country has its long-term development blueprint’s social, political and economic pillars (Vision 2030) aligned with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Hardest hit by climate change, Africa demands special considerations at COP 25
African civil society organizations are pressing for a decision at the Chile Climate Change Summit taking place in Madrid, Spain, (COP 25) that recognizes the special circumstances and needs of the continent, which is among the hardest hit and the least prepared for the adverse impacts of climate change. Among other things, current projections show the continent will warm 1.5 times faster than the global mean.
Youth, women, smallholders join global cry for climate justice, landscape restoration
The stirring lyrics of ‘We Shall Overcome’ became the battle hymn of Global Landscapes Forum Accra 2019 as smallholder producers, women, youth and academics rose up to call for shared solutions to the worldwide climate crisis and successful landscape restoration.
Forest landscapes restoration is more than just planting tree
One of the biggest challenges the planet face today is the earth drying up. This concern has given rise to voices clamouring for a green revolution of innovative initiatives and solutions to halt the rate of global warming. Vegetations hold the solution to reverse the climate change phenomenon – with more shrub, grass and tree cover on degraded lands and farmlands, biomass carbon is increased and the land is conserved for higher farm productivity and incomes.
CIFOR redoubles efforts to promote sustainable Ghanaian landscapes
Ghanaian landscapes are marked by multiple and competing resource frontiers, from the cocoa-forests and oil palm belts in the high-forest zone (HFZ) to converging shea parklands and pastoral lands of the northern savannah. Widespread mining and complex tenure arrangements overlay, and sometimes further undermine, efforts to design long-vision resource management plans.
The forest is our pharmacy, our lungs and our supermarket
Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) has made a strong case for the protection and restoration of African forests, saying the forests remain the potent source for sustainable livelihood. Opening the 4th AFR100 Annual Partnership Meeting in Accra, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng alluded to the forest as housing plants for medicines, food and providing oxygen to sustain lives.
Climate Action Summit; Issues Arising
Leaders from government, business, and civil society have announced potentially far-reaching steps to confront climate change at the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit in New York. As carbon pollution, temperatures, and climate destruction continue to rise, and public backlash mounts, the Summit has offered a turning point from inertia into momentum, action, and global impact – if everyone gets on board.
African climate activist receives EarthCare Award
Mithika (left) is recipient of Eath Care Award The Executive Director of the Pan African Justice Alliance (PACJA), Mithika Mwenda is this year’s winner of the International Earth Care Award. The Award, for which he was named winner in July 2019, was issued at a ceremony attended by Climate enthusiasts from around the world in the Marriott Oakland City Centre in Oakland, California, USA.
Stepping Up Climate Action for a Resilient Africa
Nisreen Eslaim, a young woman from Sudan who actively participated in the Peoples’ Revolution which triumphed over a 30-year autocracy, shares a devastating story that is phenomenon turning more challenging than winning the democratic struggle. People in her country are faced by another catastrophic ecological crisis of monumental proportion, which has already killed over 60 people and destroyed 37,000 homes.
Peace, democratic governance and chequebook journalism
The National Peace Council is exploring avenues to partner Ghanaian media houses to roll out programmes to enhance professional reporting in conflict sensitivities. As the media provide and facilitate the flow of information, the Council acknowledges that they constitute an important component of the political process in democracies. Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof.
Approaching the Climate Red line: Impacts Overtaking Actions
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Landthat was released on the heels of its Special Report on 1.5 degree left no one (except climate denials) in doubt of the bleeding planet and the pending planetary crisis or what others may call climate breakdown ahead of us.
Nestlé partners Red Cross Society in community water project
A sustainable water system has been installed for the Fenaso Nkwanta community in the Ashanti region under the Ghana Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project (Ghana-WASH). The Gh60,000 project is a partnership between the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Nestlé, with Ghana Red Cross Society (GRCS) as the implementing partner.
Renowned African climate activist reacts to US Ambassador’s endorsement of coal-fired power project
The following statement is by Mithika Mwenda, Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), an umbrella body of African civil society organizations. Mithika was recently named as one of the “100 most influential people in the world on climate policy.
African climate activist to receive prestigious environmental conservation award
Executive Director of the Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), Mithika Mwenda has been selected for the prestigious Sierra Club’s Earth Care Award 2019 for his unique contribution to international environmental protection and conservation. Sierra Club, an environmental organisation based in the United States, presents the Earth Care Award annually to honour individuals or organisations that make unique contribution to international environmental protection and conservation.
African civil society reflects on Bonn Climate Change Negotiations
African governments and civil society are joining the UN Climate Change Conference (SB50) in Bonn, Germany, amidst very disturbing memories of recent impacts of extreme weather events on the continent, especially in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The African continent is under extreme pressure more than ever due to these extreme events.
EU-UNEP Africa LEDS Project gives birth to Accra Action Agenda to drive Climate Action
Africa is a negligible emitter of greenhouse gasses, yet the continent stands out as the most vulnerable region of the globe to climate change, with the primary driver of vulnerability being the prevailing low levels of socioeconomic development. Years gone by, the rains used to be predictable and it was easy for local communities and farmers to plan with the seasons. But times have changed; livelihoods are now being impacted by the reality of climate change.
EU-UNEP Africa LEDS Project sets pace for climate action on the continent
The little steps African countries are taking in transitioning to low emissions pathway are what will see the continent achieve climate compliance by 2030, as called for in the Paris Climate Agreement, says Dr. Richard Munang, UN Environment Africa Regional Climate Change Coordinator.
Entrepreneurs in climate and clean energy innovations and agri-business development get support
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development in Africa.
Strong leadership needed to curb traffic accidents, injuries and deaths
The Fifth United Nations Global Road Safety Week, which runs from 6-12 May, kicks of this week with a rallying call for strong leadership around the globe to advance road safety in countries and communities. The campaign has an ambitious goal - to halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents by 2020.
AfDB seeks rice self-sufficiency in rice production through technologies
As at 2014, rice consumption in sub-Saharan Africa was estimated to be approximately 26 million metric tons (MT). Out of this figure, 13 million MT which represents about one-third of what is traded on the world market, came into Africa via imports. Rice consumption in Africa is projected to reach 34.9 million tons by 2025. Out of this figure, 12.6 million MT will be imported at a cost of about US$5.5 billion annually.
AFF celebrates a decade’s work on African forestry
The African Forest Forum (AFF) is commemorating a decade of its work on African forestry. On May 22, 2019 a celebration, including a launch of eight training compendiums on various aspects of climate change in forestry, as well as a book titled, “The State of Forestry in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges” will take place in Nairobi Kenya. The event is organized by AFF in collaboration with the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI).
Baptist leader questions honesty in endorsement of passport forms
Executive President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi has questioned the honesty of some religious leaders and other persons authorized to endorse official documents like the national passport. He says the worrying reality of non-Ghanaians being able to have access to Ghanaian passports brings to the question to integrity of the process in passport issuance. “Are Reverend Ministers also being compromised in one way or the other in performing these duties?
Ghana’s Water Resources Commission lead World Water Day commemoration
World Water Day (WWD) 2019 is on the theme: “Leaving no one behind”. The theme highlights access to water as a basic human right and provides a focus to reflect on why people have been left behind and how access to water and sanitation, and sustainable water management can be drivers of change. This year’s celebration is being used to highlight the various areas of disparities that exist in terms of access to water resources within Ghana.
Green groups at Africa Climate Week call for less talk and more action on low-carbon transition
Green groups from Ghana and other African countries joined the UN-hosted Africa Climate Week to demand rapid and ambitious climate action by government officials gathered in Accra for the conference.
Promotion of gender equality intensifies at Africa Climate Week
Experts participating in the Africa Climate Week (ACW 2019) in Accra, Ghana have argued that practical solutions hinge on women’s participation in all aspects of the climate change debate. In a presentation at the Africa Consultative Workshop on the sidelines of ACW, Salina Sanou of the Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), said there is need to continue supporting indigenous women-led organisations to empower them as role models.
PACJA’s Mithika Mwenda named among 100 most influential people in Climate Change Policy 2019
Mithika Mwenda, the Executive Director of the African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), has been named among the “World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Change Policy 2019”. It is the first time such a list, which will become an annual tradition, has been compiled. Only five other Africans are on the list.
Africa Climate Week: Accessing Finance for Climate Action
Access to finance remains critical for vulnerable African countries to take climate action. Ghana, for instance, requires $22.6billion in investments to implement climate mitigation and adaptation actions. While countries are expected to commit national resources in undertaking climate mitigation and adaptation, overcoming the climate scourge will demand huge international support to efficiently implement the nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
Africa Climate Week: Groups express concerns over forest decline
Civil society and indigenous forest communities have expressed concerns over the accelerating decline of forests in African countries, and called on drastic measures to reverse the trend. Around 100 participants from 20 forest-dependent countries across Africa are meeting on the sidelines of the UN “African climate week” to share experiences and exchange ideas on various efforts spearheaded by governments to address deforestation and forest degradation, popularly known as REDD, in Africa.
The urgency of tackling climate-related security risk in Africa
The African Union Peace and Security Council has been commended for dedicating its 828th session to climate change. During an open session on the theme: “Climate Change Funding in line with the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) to Contribute towards Peace and Security”, the Council noted the inextricable linkages between climate change and peace and security, and emphasized the need for collective and holistic approaches towards building resilience and mitigating the adverse effects of climate.
Climate-smart yam cropping system comes to the rescue of farmers
Ghanaian yam farmers are in constant search for soil fertility and staking for sustainable high yield production. To help farmers overcome this challenge, research scientists are making progress in exploring solutions by introducing farmers to the Pigeon Pea–Yam Cropping System for improved yam productivity.
Lava poised for competition in Ghana’s mobile phone market with high quality affordable devices
The Ghanaian mobile phone market has a new entrant. After entering the African mobile market through Egypt, Lava, the fastest growing Indian mobile phone company has launched its operations in Ghana. The company has promised to deliver valuable and reliable yet affordable mobile technology to the market and community. “The vision of Lava is to make valuable technology accessible to people and empower them to do more and be more,” said Vikram Singh Parmar, CEO of Lava Africa.
Indian mobile giant, LAVA, invades Ghana’s technology space
An international Indian company, LAVA, has announced its plans to launch major investments in Ghana’s technology space from 2019. LAVA intends to invade the Ghanaian market with the latest smartphones that carry advanced capabilities to compete with prominent international brands.
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