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In 2007 South Africa experienced its first bout of load shedding, a whopping 16 years ago. Little did we know that this was the first hint of a new normal for our country...

TechCabal, the flagship publication of Big Cabal Media (BCM), a Nigerian digital media company has appointed South African journalist and editor Adrian Ephraim as their editor-in-chief...

Fast fashion is entering the second-hand market, which is currently in a golden age across many countries...

Disasters can’t be stopped fully but suitable measures and planning are needed to mitigate risk. These were the expert views expressed during the technical session on ‘Strengthening Resilience and Adaptive Capacity of Himalayan communities to Climate-Related Disasters’ during the t

At the World Economic Forum headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, last week, Honoris United Universities (www.Honoris.net), the first and largest network

Human agency is seen as a critical component of adaptive capacity concerning environmental change. This capacity may entail social actor's ability to learn from past experience, and create opportunities in the present for dealing with uncertainty and change in the future. However, it also means that actors need to be able to overturn structural barriers that impede anticipatory adaptation to climate change such as lack of political leadership, power imbalances, acceptance of climate risks a...

Six hundred young Jamaican farmers and fishers across five parishes will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change under the pilot ‘Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Farmers and Fisherfolk in Jamaica’ project.

A pilot project to help young farmers and fishers in five of the island's parishes bolster their businesses and combat climate change was launched last Thursday at the Denbigh 4-H Training and Pro...

Six hundred young Jamaican farmers and fishers will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change