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Armed groups in the Sahel are finding new ways to profit from the rapidly expanding lithium trade.
Isolated interventions are unlikely to help small sugarcane growers. Improving productivity requires integrated support systems.
South Africa is one of the best places in the world for concentrating solar power. So why has the country’s energy plan largely ignored it?
In a rural South African village, climate action is influenced by ubuntu: the belief that people are connected and have a responsibility to one another.
Storing hydrogen in metallic materials is a promising avenue for extracting value from Africa’s minerals.
Crises that add up on top of each other have to be addressed in an integrated way.
A test case in Franschhoek, South Africa has used natural filtering of polluted water to produce 50,000 litres a day that is safe for irrigation.
In South Africa and Kenya, some green energy projects have deprived local communities of land and livelihoods instead of sharing the benefits.
As plastic waste spreads across communal grazing land, smallholder farmers are losing livestock, income and an important source of food and security.
A study of 701 households in Nairobi found that rising food and fuel prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced many families to eat and cook less.
A new collection of Amílcar Cabral’s agricultural writings shows why Africa’s soil crisis today is about history, politics and people as much as farming.
Researchers have used drones and ground sensors to get the first ever measurements of exactly how much water hemp crops consume.
This decrease of snowfall is driven by changing sea surface temperature patterns in the Indian Ocean, which is a signal of global warming.
Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.
Africa has a chance to host a climate conference that makes an impact.
Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.
Solar farms can bring jobs, but the story of one South African community shows that rural residents who give up their land need more say in how benefits are shared.
South Africa needs a credible gas plan tied to procurement, infrastructure and industrial policy.
New research shows how women in rural Zimbabwe rebuilt their lives after Cyclone Dineo displaced hundreds of families and swept away their homes.
Top contributors
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Research Fellow, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape
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Chief Specialist Scientist (Public Health), South African Medical Research Council
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
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Senior Researcher, Associate Professor: Economic Management Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, University of Venda
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Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher in Renewable Energy, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor in the Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Researcher, Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
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Research Scientist: Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Department of Geography, University of KwaZulu-Natal