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How FoodForward SA's digital tech tackles climate challenges and enhances food access in South Africa

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People living in makeshift shelters outside the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town have been cold and wet this week. The site is owned by the Department of Public Works. Photos: Matthew Hirsch / Groundup

Shelters scramble as heavy rain continuesMatthew Hirsch

5 steps to decarbonising and digitising your fleet

5 steps to decarbonising and digitising your fleet

People living in makeshift shelters outside the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town have been cold and wet this week. The site is owned by the Department of Public Works. Photos: Matthew Hirsch / Groundup

Shelters scramble as heavy rain continues

By Matthew Hirsch 12 Jul 2024

5 steps to decarbonising and digitising your fleet

5 steps to decarbonising and digitising your fleet

12 Jul 2024

Debate over glyphosate rages in South Africa

Debate over glyphosate rages in South Africa

30 Jan 2017

Oxfam East Africa via

Horn of Africa faces acute food shortage

30 Jan 2017

CoCT Council approves intensified water restrictions

CoCT Council approves intensified water restrictions

27 Jan 2017

Solar power and investing in social entrepreneurship

Solar power and investing in social entrepreneurship

26 Jan 2017

Eating insects has long made sense in Africa. The world must catch up

Eating insects has long made sense in Africa. The world must catch up

Saliou Niassy, Sunday Ekesi 24 Jan 2017

Food security: how Fairtrade helps level the playing field for small producers

Food security: how Fairtrade helps level the playing field for small producers

Bob Doherty 24 Jan 2017

Why municipalities can't hand over power to Eskom

Why municipalities can't hand over power to Eskom

23 Jan 2017

Africa needs to manage food, water and energy in a way that connects all three

Africa needs to manage food, water and energy in a way that connects all three

Agathe Maupin and Mercy Mwanikah Ojoyi 23 Jan 2017

Erdenebayar via

Agriculture and water scarcity - it's time to act

23 Jan 2017

Using wastewater as an agricultural resource

20 Jan 2017

SA's maize crop may help feed SADC

Wandile Sihlobo 20 Jan 2017

Firms push hydrogen as top green energy

Firms push hydrogen as top green energy

19 Jan 2017

Is Southern Africa running out of fish?

Geoff Hill 18 Jan 2017

Utility distorts facts about renewable energy, group claims

Utility distorts facts about renewable energy, group claims

Bekezela Phakathi 17 Jan 2017

ENGIE signs an agreement for the development of renewable energies in Senegal.

ENGIE, ANER partner to promote clean energy in Senegal

16 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Why more than ever, sustainability is good business

#BizTrends2017: Why more than ever, sustainability is good business

Justin Smith 12 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Defining sustainability for the bottling industry

#BizTrends2017: Defining sustainability for the bottling industry

Gaopaleloe Mothoagae 11 Jan 2017

CT asks residents to report on water wastage

CT asks residents to report on water wastage

11 Jan 2017

Firms push envelope with bright ideas to deliver energy to Africa

Firms push envelope with bright ideas to deliver energy to Africa

Tsakane Ngoepe and Tine Henriksen 11 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Sustainability to drive trends in construction

#BizTrends2017: Sustainability to drive trends in construction

John Schooling 9 Jan 2017

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Carla Tsampiras and Neil Overy 9 Jan 2017

Millions spent to keep taps running

Millions spent to keep taps running

Roxanne Henderson 9 Jan 2017

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Laura Pereira et al. 6 Jan 2017

Innovative sustainability at Boschendal

Innovative sustainability at Boschendal

4 Jan 2017

(Left to right) Alain Ebobisse, CEO, Africa50, Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, deputy governor of Jigawa State, Terje Pilskog, executive vice president, Scatec Solar, Børge Brende, the Norwegian foreign minister and Mark Davis, investment director, Norfund.

Nigeria's Nova Scotia solar project gets new investors

29 Dec 2016

High-tech agriculture can prevent oncoming global water wars

High-tech agriculture can prevent oncoming global water wars

Rupesh Paudyal 28 Dec 2016

By Kate Holt_AusAID –

Gender equality in agriculture holds key to food security, poverty alleviation

23 Dec 2016

Source: Eren Renewable Energy

Huge solar plant beams power, hope to rural Uganda

22 Dec 2016

Community-scale projects are Africa's energy future

Community-scale projects are Africa's energy future

21 Dec 2016

KZN works to build food security

KZN works to build food security

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CoCT Council approves intensified water restrictions

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Eating insects has long made sense in Africa. The world must catch up

Eating insects has long made sense in Africa. The world must catch up

Saliou Niassy, Sunday Ekesi 24 Jan 2017

Food security: how Fairtrade helps level the playing field for small producers

Food security: how Fairtrade helps level the playing field for small producers

Bob Doherty 24 Jan 2017

Why municipalities can't hand over power to Eskom

Why municipalities can't hand over power to Eskom

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Africa needs to manage food, water and energy in a way that connects all three

Africa needs to manage food, water and energy in a way that connects all three

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Erdenebayar via

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23 Jan 2017

Using wastewater as an agricultural resource

20 Jan 2017

SA's maize crop may help feed SADC

Wandile Sihlobo 20 Jan 2017

Firms push hydrogen as top green energy

Firms push hydrogen as top green energy

19 Jan 2017

Is Southern Africa running out of fish?

Geoff Hill 18 Jan 2017

Utility distorts facts about renewable energy, group claims

Utility distorts facts about renewable energy, group claims

Bekezela Phakathi 17 Jan 2017

ENGIE signs an agreement for the development of renewable energies in Senegal.

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16 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Why more than ever, sustainability is good business

#BizTrends2017: Why more than ever, sustainability is good business

Justin Smith 12 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Defining sustainability for the bottling industry

#BizTrends2017: Defining sustainability for the bottling industry

Gaopaleloe Mothoagae 11 Jan 2017

CT asks residents to report on water wastage

CT asks residents to report on water wastage

11 Jan 2017

Firms push envelope with bright ideas to deliver energy to Africa

Firms push envelope with bright ideas to deliver energy to Africa

Tsakane Ngoepe and Tine Henriksen 11 Jan 2017

#BizTrends2017: Sustainability to drive trends in construction

#BizTrends2017: Sustainability to drive trends in construction

John Schooling 9 Jan 2017

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Carla Tsampiras and Neil Overy 9 Jan 2017

Millions spent to keep taps running

Millions spent to keep taps running

Roxanne Henderson 9 Jan 2017

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Incubating ideas on how southern Africa can manage the Anthropocene

Laura Pereira et al. 6 Jan 2017

Innovative sustainability at Boschendal

Innovative sustainability at Boschendal

4 Jan 2017

(Left to right) Alain Ebobisse, CEO, Africa50, Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, deputy governor of Jigawa State, Terje Pilskog, executive vice president, Scatec Solar, Børge Brende, the Norwegian foreign minister and Mark Davis, investment director, Norfund.

Nigeria's Nova Scotia solar project gets new investors

29 Dec 2016

High-tech agriculture can prevent oncoming global water wars

High-tech agriculture can prevent oncoming global water wars

Rupesh Paudyal 28 Dec 2016

By Kate Holt_AusAID –

Gender equality in agriculture holds key to food security, poverty alleviation

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Source: Eren Renewable Energy

Huge solar plant beams power, hope to rural Uganda

22 Dec 2016

KZN works to build food security

KZN works to build food security

21 Dec 2016

Community-scale projects are Africa's energy future

Community-scale projects are Africa's energy future

21 Dec 2016

Ethiopia inaugurates dam to double energy output

Ethiopia inaugurates dam to double energy output

20 Dec 2016

Growing Healthy Farms trains emerging farmers, feeds orphans

Growing Healthy Farms trains emerging farmers, feeds orphans

20 Dec 2016

Call for further assistance in drought relief

Call for further assistance in drought relief

19 Dec 2016

FAO Council approves new climate change department

15 Dec 2016

(Source: Access Power)

Uganda's Soroti Solar Plant begins operations

15 Dec 2016

Eskom must change its business model to stay competitive

Eskom must change its business model to stay competitive

Bruse Raw 15 Dec 2016

Zimbabwe responding to limitations of hydro power

Zimbabwe responding to limitations of hydro power

James Shepherd 15 Dec 2016

Survey reveals what South Africans think about clean energy

Survey reveals what South Africans think about clean energy

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Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger

Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger

Beverly L. Peters 13 Dec 2016

#BestofBiz 2016: CSI & Sustainability

#BestofBiz 2016: CSI & Sustainability

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Battling climate change with holistic solutions

Battling climate change with holistic solutions

Jamie Matroos 9 Dec 2016

Sustainable farming is water smart farming

Sustainable farming is water smart farming

UTZ 7 Dec 2016