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Climate justice: How marginalised communities are affected in Africa

It is essential that we recognise the historical and systemic inequalities that have contributed to the current climate crisis and work towards a more equitable and sustainable future.

By Gary Gerald Mtombeni Dec. 8, 2024

Climate justice: How marginalised communities are affected in Africa

Unlocking the promise of indigenous knowledge to combat climate change

As custodians of local resources including wetlands, chiefs should be consulted before boreholes are drilled.

By Charles Dhewa Sep. 25, 2024

Unlocking the promise of indigenous knowledge to combat climate change

Exploring climate change as the universal language of communication

The indigenous knowledge systems are the traditional ecological knowledge that is community based and driven.

By Peter Makwanya Sep. 16, 2024

Exploring climate change as the universal language of communication

Why cultural lens are required in managing the environment

Therefore, local and indigenous communities have reasons to conserve forests and keep them intact as ways of managing them through cultural attachments and worldviews.

By Peter Makwanya Jul. 22, 2024

Why cultural lens are required in managing the environment

Making agroecology and its products more consumer-centric

Many African communities know their food is nutritious but may not express it in the language of balanced diet or any other nutrition terms.

By Charles Dhewa Jun. 19, 2024

Making agroecology and its products more consumer-centric

Benefits of integrating food systems with education

Knowledge around appropriate food preservation technologies can be embedded at industrial parks occupied by the young generation who are attached to colleges and universities.

By Charles Dhewa May. 8, 2024

Benefits of integrating food systems with education

Toward protection of indigenous trees

From the beginnings of civilisation, man has altered environmental processes as he dug into the organic store of the planet's ecosystems.

By Tinashe Elvis Chikodzi Apr. 15, 2024

‘Films can best explain climate change’

Zibusiso Condry Mabonisa — who is seeking funds for his next film, told Newsday Life & Style that, as a researcher specialising on IKS, African culture, tradition and norms, producing films

By Margaret Lubinda Jan. 9, 2024

Of agroecology and related terminologies that hogged the limelight in 2023

As a proponent of agroecology, eMKambo has been seized with contextualising agroecology so that farming communities do not continue to see it as a foreign invention.

By Charles Dhewa Dec. 20, 2023