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Cyberactivism:
So you want to join the online revolution! Are you computer savvy and comfortable with social networking tools? Maybe you’re located far from any of our regional offices, yet you want to make a difference and volunteer your time? Well guess what, there ARE ways to pressure governments and corporations to make the ethical choice…
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Resilience Reports
Our climate is changing and all over the world we are experiencing more unpredictable and uncertain weather than in the past. Those depending on the weather for their daily bread – farmers and farm workers – are feeling, and will continue to feel, climate change more intensively than everyone else. East Africa has first-hand experience…
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Irresponsible Investment
Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies. The investment project receives considerable financial and technical…
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Financing Ecological Farming in Africa
This report provides a resource to the donor community to facilitate the provision of support to ecological farming across Africa. We define donors broadly to include: governments providing bilateral overseas development assistance, multilateral financial institutions, philanthropies, and international (UN) development organisations.
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2015 Annual Report
The year 2015 brought change to the heart of what we do at Greenpeace Africa. It was a defining year across the global organisation — marked by the active implementation…
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License to Kill?
This paper provides an estimate of the health damages and economic costs that would be avoided if Eskom was made to fully comply with the national air emission standards -- the very standards it is currently trying to bypass.
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2013 Annual Report
This annual report provides a summary of the activities carried out in different parts of Africa in an effort to curtail some of e pressing environmental challenges of our time, including: climate…
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Powering The Future
Our latest report, released on the eve of the BRICS summit in Durban, busts prevailing myths around green energy and reaffirms why renewables are the best option for powering South Africa.
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Eskom has failed South Africans: it’s time for new management
Today, we joined forces with two other environmental organisation - Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and groundWork, to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under new management.
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Eskom Set to Accelerate Water Crisis
Coal-fired electricity is a major threat to South Africa’s already stressed water resources – and Eskom’s new mega coal plants are set to make matters even worse, further compromising water access for the poor. Currently almost a million South African households still have no access to water.