Africa holds 17.8% of global population, contributes a paltry 3.7% to global greenhouse emissions and suffers disproportionately from climate change. According to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), climate change in Africa is "harming food security, ecosystems and economies, fueling displacement and
Are you battling with burnout? Employee burnout is a underreported global pandemic. In a study of over 1000 respondents by Deloitte and reported by Apollo Technical, "77% say they have experienced burnout at their current job." Similarly, "about 91% of respondents report that unmanageable stress or
I will start by defining homelessness as the lack of a respectable, secure accommodation with access to clean water, sanitation and other public amenities that exposes the individual(s) or group(s) bereft of them to the vagaries and risks of weather, insecurity and public or private
Published January 28, 2024 Ms. Obaje J. single mother of five kids on a monthly salary of approximately $28.57 or 40,000 Nigerian Naira (NGN) at the galloping exchange rate of $1 to NGN1,400 struggles in the Ilaje community in Bariga Lagos to allocate her meagre wages
No matter the data you interrogate, Africa is reported to have a disproportionate number of the worlds poorest. While the World Bank reported that 685 million people around the world lived in extreme poverty with less than $2.15 dollars per day at the end of 2022,
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently released its "State of Food Security and Nutrition Report 2024", indicating that the drive to end global hunger has stalled. According to the report, more than 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, 1/11 globally and 1/5 or
Project Background According to a study by Alero Ann Roberts, 66.8% of households in Lagos Nigeria were between moderately and severely food insecure as at 2018[1]. Food security amongst other things, speaks to access to food that meets dietary requirements, and the purchasing power to procure
AJSD's Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief Maurice Ekpong was the Chair at the recently concluded 11th Africa Sugar and Ethanol Conference which held at the prestigious Radisson Blu Hotel, Upper Hill Nairobi Kenya April 24 - 25, 2024. The annual conference organized by Informa Connect which
According to a 2021 FAO report titled 'Review of Forest and Landscape Restoration in Africa', "up to 65% of productive land in Africa is degraded, while desertification affects 45% of the continents land area." Although "the overall trend is reducing, net loss of forests
On the sidelines of the recently concluded 11th Africa Sugar and Ethanol Conference organized by Informa Connect which held at the Radisson Blu Hotel Upper Hill Nairobi Kenya April 24-25, 2024, we caught up with Pål M. Ladsten, Africa Sales Director Health & Biosciences at