Africa’s rural poor are reliant on biomass for cooking and heating, exposing them to high levels of pollutants As COVID-19 wreaks havoc across continents, an unfashionable killer silently and stealthily chokes the life...
Ethiopia
A bright future for agro waste
Innovative social enterprises are recycling biowaste into affordable carbon-neutral biomass fuels in Kenya Amid a monotonous din, Elizabeth Nyamai feeds cubes of peeled and washed tubers into an electric grater. Not...
Desert locust outbreak highlights gaps in risk governance
The desert locust outbreak requires several levels of response from national and regional governance structures. We know that environmental disasters are a function of our disregard for the environment we have been...
Science isn’t enough to prevent disaster: the case of the desert locust plague in East Africa
East Africa is experiencing the worst desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) outbreak in decades. The outbreak began in early 2019 and science isn’t enough to save the livelihoods and ensure the food security of at...
Greendustrialisation: now or never for Africa
African economies looking for a sustainable industrialisation model find themselves at a crossroads with little time to decide the way forward. Lack of industrialisation is often pinpointed as the key factor behind...
Has Africa’s time for hydropower passed?
Africa has vast untapped sources of hydroelectricity but climate change, particularly droughts, raises questions about sustainability. Hydroelectricity has an attractive appeal for Africa. It can provide a baseload - a...
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