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Finance

African bank stress test flags systemic risks posed by nature loss

16 Jul 2024

Braecroft Timbers receives 2024 Bushbuck Trophy for forestry management

Agriculture

Braecroft Timbers receives 2024 Bushbuck Trophy for forestry management

3 Jul 2024

Ivory Coast cracks down on fraudulent cocoa certifications

Agriculture

Ivory Coast cracks down on fraudulent cocoa certifications

Ange Aboa 28 May 2024

Mastering resilience: How preparation beats the odds in building agribusiness

Agriculture

Mastering resilience: How preparation beats the odds in building agribusiness

24 May 2024

ESG & Sustainability

Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

Sean Avery 6 May 2024

Terena Chetty, Head of Strategy at 1Africa Consulting

HR & Management

How climate change has become an OHS issue

Terena Chetty 23 Apr 2024

Report: Fortified whole grains combat climate change and hunger

Agriculture

Report: Fortified whole grains combat climate change and hunger

18 Apr 2024

Applications open for GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition

Agriculture

Applications open for GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition

12 Apr 2024

Farmers work at a cocoa farm in Daloa, Ivory Coast, 3 October 2023. Reuters/Ange Aboa/File Photo

ESG & Sustainability

EU will not delay deforestation law, environment chief says on Ivory Coast visit

Ange Aboa 8 Apr 2024

How nature-based knowledge can restore local ecosystems and improve community well-being

Agriculture

How nature-based knowledge can restore local ecosystems and improve community well-being

Saeed Rahman and Natalie Slawinski 11 Mar 2024

Entrepreneurship

Sappi secures PEFC Group Scheme Certification for small growers

20 Dec 2023

Coffee firms turning away from Africa as EU deforestation law looms

Agriculture

Coffee firms turning away from Africa as EU deforestation law looms

Maytaal Angel and Dewi Kurniawati 19 Dec 2023

How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon sink, soil

Agriculture

How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon sink, soil

Rémi Cardinael, Armwell Shumba and Vira Leng 7 Dec 2023

#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Agriculture

#COP28: 7 food and agriculture innovations needed to protect the climate and feed a rapidly growing world

Paul Winters 4 Dec 2023

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Healthcare

#COP28: AstraZeneca's AZ Forest initiative: Pledging six million trees in Kenya

1 Dec 2023

A view shows a part of Sidi El Barrak dam at low water levels, in Nafza, west of the capital Tunis, Tunisia, 7 January 2023. Reuters/Jihed Abidellaoui

ESG & Sustainability

Climate change is the biggest human health risk, says Africa's disease boss

30 Nov 2023

Climate change and farming: Economists warn more needs to be done to adapt in sub-Saharan Africa

Agriculture

Climate change and farming: Economists warn more needs to be done to adapt in sub-Saharan Africa

Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso and Abiodun Olusola Omotayo 22 Nov 2023

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ESG & Sustainability

Giraffes could go extinct - the 5 biggest threats they face

Derek E. Lee 3 Nov 2023

A general view shows the water conditions of the Piraiba river before a summit of Amazon rainforest nations, in Belem, Para state, Brazil 6 August 2023. Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino

ESG & Sustainability

Home countries of major rainforests agree to work together to save them

Ange Kasongo 30 Oct 2023

Papering over the cracks: Why negative forestry perceptions are doing our planet a disservice

Agriculture

Papering over the cracks: Why negative forestry perceptions are doing our planet a disservice

Jane Molony 19 Oct 2023

Cocoa prices are surging: West African countries should seize the moment to negotiate a better deal for farmers

Agriculture

Cocoa prices are surging: West African countries should seize the moment to negotiate a better deal for farmers

5 Oct 2023

Farmers plant more cocoa outside Africa as prices rally

Agriculture

Farmers plant more cocoa outside Africa as prices rally

Marcelo Teixeira 2 Oct 2023

Sabrina Khoosal, hair development scientist in the research and innovation department at L’Oréal South Africa

ESG & Sustainability

#WomensMonth: Sabrina Khoosal on the sustainable beauty industry - because the earth is worth it

Shan Radcliffe 29 Aug 2023

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Agriculture

'Worthless' forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change

Julia P G Jones and Neal Hockley 28 Aug 2023

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Lifestyle

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Jun 2023

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Lifestyle

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 24 May 2023

How harvested wood products can create climate-friendly solutions

Agriculture

How harvested wood products can create climate-friendly solutions

Jane Molony 26 Apr 2023

Pioneering sustainable forestry towards a circular economy

Agriculture

Pioneering sustainable forestry towards a circular economy

Marietjie Brown 21 Apr 2023

Legal

French court to rule on landmark TotalEnergies Uganda case

America Hernandez 28 Feb 2023

Roland Adjovi, a producer of Ecolo coal, transforms plant waste into bio charcoal at his workshop in Cotonou, Benin, 27 January 2023. Reuters/Charles Placide Tossou

ESG & Sustainability

Benin entrepreneur transforms plant waste into charcoal

Pulcherie Adjoha and Seraphin Zounyekpe 22 Feb 2023

Zambia receives 'debt-for-nature' proposal from WWF for restructuring

ESG & Sustainability

Zambia receives 'debt-for-nature' proposal from WWF for restructuring

Marc Jones and Rachel Savage 19 Jan 2023

COP27 will be remembered as a failure - here's what went wrong

ESG & Sustainability

COP27 will be remembered as a failure - here's what went wrong

Mark Maslin, Priti Parikh, Richard Taylor, Simon Chin-Yee 22 Nov 2022

Can planks and paper packaging help solve the climate crisis?

Agriculture

Can planks and paper packaging help solve the climate crisis?

16 Nov 2022

Climate change - the real threat to farming profitably

Agriculture

Climate change - the real threat to farming profitably

Felix Kagura 16 Nov 2022

Here's what to expect at COP27

ESG & Sustainability

Here's what to expect at COP27

Víctor Resco de Dios and Miguel Ángel de Zavala Gironés 3 Nov 2022

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Retail

Cadbury-maker Mondelez pumps another $600m into cocoa sustainability programme

1 Nov 2022

Sustainability for the next century: Looking back to move forward

Construction & Engineering

Sustainability for the next century: Looking back to move forward

Keketso Motjuwadi 24 Oct 2022

What will your cup of coffee look like in 2030?

Agriculture

What will your cup of coffee look like in 2030?

Scott Coles 12 Oct 2022

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, 2 November 2021. Paul Ellis/Pool via Reuters

ESG & Sustainability

Jeff Bezos fund to push for Africa land restoration around UN climate summit

Jeffrey Dastin 4 Oct 2022

Picture Supplied. WBeauty Longwear Nudes range packaged in bamboo tubes.

Retail

Woolworths launches lipsticks packaged in paper and bamboo

21 Sep 2022

Source: Raconteur Despite many countries signing the Harkin-Engel Protocol in 2002 an estimated 20 million children are still working on cocoa farms in West Africa

Retail

Cape Roasters launch sustainably sourced Nuggles

21 Sep 2022

EU chocolate industry offers to share cocoa farm data with Ivory Coast, Ghana

Agriculture

EU chocolate industry offers to share cocoa farm data with Ivory Coast, Ghana

Maytaal Angel 16 Sep 2022

Pamsa reports 61.4% paper recovery rate in 2021

ESG & Sustainability

Pamsa reports 61.4% paper recovery rate in 2021

19 Aug 2022

73-year-old accountant to take on the Amazon river to fight climate change

Finance

73-year-old accountant to take on the Amazon river to fight climate change

Issued by SAICA 5 Jul 2022

#StartupStory: Producing healthy food for both animals and people with Mangau Animal Feeds

Agriculture

#StartupStory: Producing healthy food for both animals and people with Mangau Animal Feeds

Robin Fredericks 14 Jul 2022