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REPORT | Food or Poison? The Silent Environmental Cost of Highly Hazardous Pesticides in Africa
This report highlights the growing reliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) across the continent, particularly in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. While these chemicals are often marketed as essential for boosting crop yields, the report argues they are actually “poisoning the foundations of our food systems” by destroying soil health and killing critical pollinators like…
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Should climate funding be a deal breaker for climate action in Africa?
As the world looks yet again with hope and anticipation to the current round of talks in the global climate conference in Egypt (COP27), it is clear that one of the most critical ways to address the climate quagmire is to make polluters pay.
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GMOs: A neo-colonial technology undermining food and seed sovereignty in Kenya
Kenya has lifted its 10 year ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines GMOs as organisms (plants, animals or microorganisms) whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating and/or natural recombination.
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GMOs: A neo-colonial technology undermining food and seed sovereignty in Kenya
Kenya has lifted its 10 year ban on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines GMOs as organisms (plants, animals or microorganisms) whose genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally through mating and/or natural recombination.
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From rhetoric to reality: Why COP31 must deliver for Africa
In the next few days, the world will gather in Antalya, southwestern Turkey, for the 31st UN Climate Change Conference. This must not be another talk shop or jamboree. It must be a decisive turning point that shapes global climate action.
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New Gambia fisheries coalition urges presidential candidates to sign sustainable fisheries Charter
Fishing community representatives and civil-society organisations today launched the National Coalition for Sustainable Fisheries in The Gambia, with a first mission: secure presidential candidates’ endorsement of a Charter to protect fisheries resources and the people who depend on them.
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Congo Basin civil society unites, calling on regional governments to protect forests and community rights
The Third Regional Conference of Congo Basin Civil Society Organisations concludes with the Libreville Declaration, calling for more transparent forest governance, recognition of forest peoples’ rights, and direct access to climate finance.