Twenty years after AGRA’s launch, a report built on 18 years of FAO data paints a contrasting picture: fertiliser use and crop area surged, overall yields...
By the Witness Radio team. Envisioned as a cornerstone of Uganda’s energy future, the Karuma Hydropower Project aimed to boost the nation’s power supply, lower electricity...
Environmental defenders warn ahead of UNCCD’s COP17 in Mongolia that development banks are financing critical mineral projects that accelerate desertification, water depletion and deforestation while claiming to support...
By the Witness Radio team NAIROBI, Kenya: Seed sovereignty champions, farmers, researchers, and civil society groups from across East Africa have united to launch a media...
By the Witness Radio team Civil society organizations across East Africa have increased their opposition to the proposed East African Community (EAC) Seeds and Plant Varieties...
By the Witness Radio team. ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia: At the 17th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17), civil society organizations urged governments...
In a landmark judgment on Aug. 14, South Africa’s Constitutional Court set aside exploration rights held by oil giant Shell and Impact Africa, a South African oil and...
By Witness Radio team ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia – Over the next two weeks, the World’s spotlight is on Mongolia, where governments, environmental experts, civil society, pastoralists, and...
She said the continued issuance of the certificates without adequate verification was fuelling land disputes and creating opportunities for land grabbers to deprive legitimate owners of...
Officials say a nationwide inventory will finally let the state prove what it owns — from school compounds to road reserves — but the exercise is...