The “Strategy paper on Coal Import Substitution” has been prepared as a report of the IMC (Inter-Ministerial Committee). The paper focusses on the present energy mix of the country, domestic coal production, trends and projections, import trends (sector-wise), coal import substitution measures already taken by the Government and most importantly, …
Food imports are placing an increasing burden on the world's poorest countries, a new FAO report says. The world food import bill has broadly tripled since 2000 to reach $1.43 trillion in 2017, while it has risen around fivefold for countries that are the most vulnerable to food shortages. This …
In Kenya, food consumption is outpacing food production. According to a new Institute for Security Studies report, annual agricultural production will need to increase by an estimated 75% from 2015 levels in order to meet consumption in 2030. Kenya’s agricultural sector, the eighth largest in Africa by volume, has struggled …
Coal Directory of India provides coal and lignite statistics spreading over eleven sections covering some general economy data, brief history of coal sector in India, present status, reserve, production, dispatches, pit health closing stock, price, export and import, trends of coal consumption in power, steel and cement production, captive coal …
Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), farmers’ representatives and civil society organisations have called for adequate budget towards agriculture sector so as to reduce huge food imports incurred by East African countries. The call was made on Wednesday in Nairobi Kenya, during the opening of 3rd EAC agriculture …
Economic globalization and concomitant growth in international trade since the late 1990s have profoundly reorganized global production activities and related CO2 emissions. Here we show trade among developing nations (i.e., South–South trade) has more than doubled between 2004 and 2011, which reflects a new phase of globalization. Some production activities …
Morogoro — High cost of renewable energy appliances and technologies and of alternative sources of energy due to import tax have been cited as some of the challenges standing in the way of expanding their use in Tanzania. Mazingira Network Tanzania's (Manet) executive secretary Frank Luvanda revealed this in an …
The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture decided to ban agricultural imports from South Africa over the outbreak of deadly listeria bacteria in South African agricultural products, official MENA news agency reported Thursday. The Egyptian ministry's Central Administration for Agricultural Quarantine also banned issuing any import permits related to agricultural products from …
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste, including compressed car scraps and scrapped ships, will be banned from import beginning from December 31, the ministry …
Importation of timber and timber products has not been banned, the government clarified yesterday. However, a joint verification, at the border entry point, of the source and origin of the products and authenticity of importation documents must be carried out. Environment CS Keriako Tobiko, in a statement, said joint verification …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of M/s Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Co Ltd. Vs Ministry of Finance & Others dated 16/04/2018 regarding imposition 70% of Safeguard Duty on import of Solar Cells whether or not assembled in Modules or panels. Madras High Court while dismissing the …
A research fellow at the Centre for Coastal Management of the University of Cape Coast Dr. Donaltus Agnorien has charged authorities to double up efforts aimed at saving the country’s water bodies. The country, he explains is heading for doom as water bodies in the country are at a stage …
A local organization that distributes seeds in South Sudan's Gbudue state wants the government to restrict international groups from importing seed into the country. The nonprofit Global Agriculture Innovation & Solutions Ltd. (GAIS) works with 200 farmers across Gbudue. GAIS Executive Director Mike Gaga says he does not understand why …
The report is the first detailed study of the currently-opaque trade in used car imports onto the African continent by De Jong and his team, due to be released by UN Environment later this year. The report also found that there were policy inconsistencies and ineffective policies in place that …
Cape Town - In the last two years, China has imported more than 80 live Asian elephants from across its border in Laos and almost 100 juvenile African elephants from Zimbabwe. They were all destined for zoos throughout China. According to wildlife investigator and film-maker, Karl Ammann, the Laotian Prime …
Cape Town - The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump’s recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Department of Interior to allow elephant trophies into the United States. In 2016 alone the US imported 3 249 …
One of China's biggest makers of solar panels said Tuesday it will invest $309 million to expand manufacturing in India in a move to guard against what it complained is a rising threat of import controls in the United States and other markets. Longi Solar Technology Ltd.'s announcement follows the …
Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu has indicated that Ghana is likely to import water from other countries if measures are not put in place to curb negative practices polluting the country’s water bodies. According to him, Ghanaians are gradually digging their own graves with degradation and …
The cost of living could go up if the findings of a new report are anything to by. The Famine Early Warning System Network says the price of a 90-kilogramme bag of maize is likely to increase to Sh3,900 by May. That means the retail price of a two-kilo packet …
NAIROBI, Kenya — “This is the spot,” said Morris Njeru, gazing down at a tangled patch of farmland where he recently found the bloody corpses of David, Mukurino and Scratch — his last donkeys. Mr. Njeru, 44, a market porter who depends on his animals to ferry goods around this …
Recent years have shown increased awareness that the use of the basic resources water, food, and energy are highly interconnected (referred to as a ‘nexus’). Spatial scales are an important but complicating factor in nexus analyses, and should receive more attention – especially in the policy-oriented literature. In this paper, …
