VICTORIA FALLS – The International Solar Alliance (ISA) has launched a new blueprint aimed at accelerating the deployment of solar energy across Africa. Officials argued that the continent must move beyond years of reports highlighting its vast renewable energy potential and focus instead on how to turn ambition into projects. The “Solarising Africa” initiative, unveiled…
Civil society organisations, community representatives, researchers and environmental justice advocates have called for a fundamental shift in the governance of Zimbabwe’s critical minerals sector, demanding that mineral development prioritises communities, ecosystems and national interests over extractive profits. The call was made at the Critical Minerals Justice Conference convened by the Centre for Natural Resource Governance…
Staff Writer ARDA Seeds is targeting Zimbabwe’s dependence on imported hard wheat with the commercial production of its locally bred Ncema variety, which the State-owned seed producer says has the quality characteristics required by millers and bakers. The move comes as Zimbabwe strengthens domestic seed production as part of efforts to reduce agricultural imports, with…
Staff Reporter ZIMBABWE wants its mining sector to generate wealth, jobs and development, but in communities such as Mberengwa, the more immediate question is whether the people living on top of the country’s mineral deposits are being asked to sacrifice too much for that promise. For Sthembisiwe Shava, the price of environmental change is measured…
Staff Writer MRS Nyaradzo Dzawanda could hardly contain her excitement as she proudly held up a freshly harvested cabbage at Virira Village Business Unit in Chivi, a simple harvest that she says represents how access to water and organised production is changing life for women in her community. For years, vegetables were something villagers had…
