The report identifies the irrigation potentials, gaps and needs that exist at national level for paddy rice production. The analysis carried out in the outlook will form a basis for enhancing water resources management in paddy fields. The report addresses all stakeholders involved in the sector, including technicians, researchers, and …
Over the past several decades in Zambia, data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations show that there has been a decrease in the per capita consumption of milk, meat, and eggs and an increase in starchy roots, primarily cassava. The resulting diet is vitamin and mineral …
New research blames rising temperatures over the last century as the key cause of decline in one of the world's most important fisheries. Lake Tanganyika is Africa's oldest lake and its fish are a critical part of the diet of neighbouring countries. But catches have declined markedly in recent decades …
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. FAO said failure to help farmers in time …
Some 18 million people from seven southern Africa countries require emergency food aid, according to the latest report by World Food Programme. The food security crisis in the region has been attributed to El Nino weather patterns which triggered unexpected droughts and prolonged dry spells last year. Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, …
Since 2000, international funding for HIV has supported scaling up antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, such funding has stagnated for years, threatening the sustainability and reach of ART programs amid efforts to achieve universal treatment. Improving health system efficiencies, particularly at the facility level, is an increasingly critical …
ZAMBIA’S annual national consumption was slightly above 1,500,000 metric tonnes by the end of 2015. THE bullies of the airwaves who have perfected the art of humiliating guests who do not support their preferred political party during live phone-in programmes on the privately-owned Radio Phoenix met their match last Friday. …
The United Nations' food agency said on Thursday it needed $730 million over the next 12 months for relief in seven southern African countries hit hard by a blistering drought and faced a $610 million shortfall. The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement the seven countries were Malawi, …
Zambian wildlife authorities said on Tuesday they had suspended the controlled slaughter of up to 2,000 hippos over the next five years following concerns from animal rights activists who described it as trophy hunting. Zambia's Department of National Parks and Wildlife said it started the hippo culling after new research …
KAZUNGULA, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Munji Malambo and his younger brother used to wake up at 5 a.m. every day to fetch water for their family and livestock. With the nearest working well over two kilometres away, the boys often missed school as they carried enough water home. That …
Yusuf Ibrahim, a tomato farmer in Kano, Nigeria, has lost almost 90 percent of his crop this year to Tuta absoluta. That prices for the fruit are 15 times higher than before the outbreak of the pest is little consolation; he can’t afford to plant the corn and rice he …
The McArthur River mine in the Northern Territory – one of the world’s biggest zinc, lead and silver mines – must shut immediately and owner Glencore must cover the clean-up costs, say traditional owners who will protest outside the company’s headquarters in Sydney on Thursday. Coinciding with Glencore’s annual general …
THE Participatory Ecological Land Use Management Association (PELUM) has urged Government to disregard recent demands for genetically modified bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton trials in Zambia. In July last year, the Cotton Development Trust (CDT) said in Malawi that the company is optimistic that once Zambia is given the permission to …
THE number of cholera cases in Lusaka Province has risen to 745 since the waterborne disease broke out in the first week of February. Provincial medical officer Kennedy Malama said in an interview yesterday that out of the 745 cases, 734 are in Lusaka district. Dr Malama said a total …
The cholera count has hit 585 across the country as the Ministry of Health tries to arrest the situation. Lusaka has recorded 16 more cases while so far six deaths have been recorded with Lusaka still topping the occurrence record. Lusaka Province District Health Director Kennedy Malama said the cases …
THE number of cholera cases in Lusaka has reached 528 since the disease broke out in February, provincial medical officer Kennedy Malama has said. Dr Malama said as at 18:00 on Friday, 27 new cases were recorded with the treatment centre in recording 14 and Kanyama 13. “Since cholera broke …
A recent aerial survey of Zambia’s elephant population shows that anti-poaching efforts are having a positive impact on the country’s national parks. The Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife participated in the Great Elephant Survey which included 20 countries across the continent. It was the first pan-African elephant census …
ZAMBIA has been identified by the global community as a place that can contribute to the mitigation of climate change due to its abundant forests. Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Christabel Ngimbu said this in Lusaka yesterday when she launched the National Forestry Policy to coincide with …
Mozambican President, Filipe Nyusi and his visiting Zambian counterpart President Edgar Lungu have inaugurated a floating thermal power plant in Nacala Port in the country’s northern Nampula Province.The project opened on Saturday is designed to ensure more power supply to the north of Mozambique. The plant, with a capacity of …
A research report has revealed that food prices for most essential items drastically increased between 2012 and 2014. The Food Price Volatility research conducted by the Civil Society Scaling up Nutrition (CSO-SUN) in Kabwata, Lusaka and Chikwanda area in Mpika over the three years shows that the price for the …
Luanda — The ministers of Hotels and Tourism of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Angolan Secretary of State of the referred sector Alfredo Varo Kaputo, approved on 29 January in Zimbabwe, the Master Plan for the integrated development of Cross-Border Conservation Area Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA ATFC), Angop has …
