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Bulawayo, Oct 7 2022 (IPS) - Meat, milk, and eggs are bad for you, and livestock is bad for the environment. Growing negative narratives about cattle’s contribution to climate change are shrinking the growth of the strategic livestock sector on which the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people in the world depend. In Africa, livestock farming is life, providing food,…

In the Three Rivers gazetted forest of northern Benin, the start of the agricultural season is a frequent hotspot of conflict between local communities and forest officials. It is at this moment when demands are made for forest fees giving permission for residents to cultivate fields or graze their livestock. Yet this is exactly when farmers experience a financial squeeze in…

RIYADH — The National Center for Vegetation Development and Combating Desertification has planted more than 12 million wild trees and shrubs to combat desertification in Saudi Arabia. The center said it planted the trees while starting the Integrated Management and Sustainable Development of Pastures Project, which is part of the National Pasture Strategy Initiative — one of the…

Speakers at an international conference underscore the need to regulate unchecked quarrying and mining in State Experts attending an international conference on landslips risk reduction organised by the Institute of Land and Disaster Management (ILDM) here have called for sustainable land use practices and active measures involving public participation for preventing the occurrence…

Once-unthinkable water crises are becoming commonplace. Reservoirs in Chennai, India’s sixth-largest city, were nearly dry in 2019. One year prior, residents of Cape Town, South Africa narrowly avoided their own “Day Zero” water shut-off. And in 2017, Rome rationed water to conserve scarce resources. The reasons for these crises go far deeper than drought: Through new…

The Sub-Saharan Cotton Initiative (SSCI) has emerged from an ideas competition organised by the Global Programme “Sustainability and Value Added in Agricultural Supply Chains” run by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and aims to mobilise the private sector for transformation projects and make cotton supply chains more sustainable. Its first annual meeting was held…