Climate change is playing an increasingly important role in the decision making processes of mining projects. Even as early as the pre-feasibility stages, its impact on factors such as water management and social licence needs to be considered.
South Africa's that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform...
Deputy Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, Makhotso Sotyu, has urged South Africans to protect land from over-use as it provides food, water and energy...
Ahead of the United Nations' International Day of Forests on 21 March, Forestry South Africa research and protection director Dr Ronald Heath talks about how the commercial forestry industry is leading the way in conserving and rehabilitating areas of high biodiversity value. He also challenges people to think differently about plantations...
Dr Ronald Heath 19 Mar 2020
Indigenous and local communities face threats from biodiversity loss...
Julie Mollins 20 Feb 2020
Ethiopian researchers put together maps which show where there are soil fertility issues and whether nutrients are missing...
Ermias Betemariam 5 Dec 2019
Speaking at the 2019 Conference on Land Policy in Africa on Monday, 25 November, African Development Bank senior vice president Charles Boamah urged African countries to act faster in purging corruption in the land sector...
This year's Conference on Land Policy in Africa, 25-29 November, is themed 'Winning the fight against corruption in the land sector in Africa'...
The conference brought together drone users, practitioners, service providers, as well as policy- and decision-makers, within the natural resource management field. The aim was to build networks and share knowledge towards the role of drones and related technology...
Killing animals for fun is an activity which divides opinion. It can also be a highly emotive issue, with high profile cases like the death of Cecil the lion sparking global media coverage and outcry...
Melanie Flynn 14 Oct 2019
Just seconds after our entry into Samara Private Game Reserve, after a bumpy 15km dirt road journey to the main gate, we were met by a tower of elegant giraffe purposefully gazing at us as if they were about to blurt out a greeting...
Lauren Hartzenberg 2 Oct 2019
It's time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents "one of the biggest and most urgent challenges" that humanity faces...
David R. Montgomery 14 Aug 2019
Looking back at this past year, the saying that truth is stranger than fiction rings true. As a country, we have turned a corner and can be proud of the way our democracy functions...
Issued by AfriGIS 24 May 2019
AfriGIS hosted its 2018 Address Breakfast at The Saxon Hotel on Thursday, 25 October 2018...
Issued by AfriGIS 24 May 2019
With the goal of enhancing access to affordable housing finance for Kenyans who are unable to access long-term loans, the World Bank has approved a $250m International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loan for the East African country...
Animal campaigners were in court this week in defence of Riff Raff, a collared bull elephant who's currently on death row for being a "nuisance"...
A proposal to declare the Bo Kaap a heritage site sat on former mayor Patricia de Lille's desk for three years, during which time four big developments were approved, according to the Bokaap Civic and Ratepayers Association...
Steve Kretzmann 27 Mar 2019
University of Cape Town (UCT) landscape architecture student Lesego Bantsheng has won Corobrik's Most Innovative Final Year Landscape Architecture Award for 2018...
Wetlands support millions of people around Africa. They include all areas that are permanently or frequently covered by water, and could be at the edge of a lake or the mouth of a river...
Lisa Rebelo and Matthew McCartney 5 Mar 2019
The FAO is seeking $940m to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world's most food-insecure populations...
Correctly applied, high density grazing makes it possible to improve grazing, gradually improve carrying capacity and amplify meat production per hectare...
Andries Gouws 20 Dec 2018
It's now over 50 years since the world was first warned that resources were being used at an unsustainable rate. It has now been estimated that almost one quarter to one-third of the world's land is degraded to some extent.
Philip Dobie 3 Dec 2018
Across Asia, man-made structures have stood powerless to avert tragedy after tragedy during 2018's rainy season...
Karen Villholth 4 Sep 2018
Just 13% of the world's oceans are now free from intense human activities such as fishing...
Kendall Jones et al. 1 Aug 2018
With humans and plants heavily reliant on the depleting water sources, a team of international scientists has put its heads together...
A good news story about China's environment is something you don't hear every day...
Brett Bryan and Lei Gao 13 Jul 2018
A broad library of evidence suggests there has been a widespread decline in their abundance and diversity since the 1950s. This matters because such insects are critical both for the reproduction of wild plants and for agricultural food production...
Philip Donkersley 16 Apr 2018
Land degradation can take many forms, but always entails a serious disruption of a healthy balance between five key ecosystem functions. These are: food production, fibre provision, microclimate regulation, water retention, and carbon storage...
Prof Abbas El-Zein 29 Mar 2018
Based on his research studies, Professor Cyril Mbatha of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership weighs in on the land reform debate...
Professor Cyril Mbatha 1 Mar 2018
Rapid population growth accelerates global demand for forest products and services. On the other hand, the population growth also increases demand for agricultural production and converting forests to arable land...
Famine weed spreads rapidly and is devastatingly destructive. It kills other plants within its vicinity, wipes out entire crop harvests, poisons wildlife as well as livestock, makes food inedible and causes a variety of health problems...
Blair Cowie 5 Feb 2018
12 million hectares of arable land are being lost each year globally, to desertification and drought, when 20 million tonnes of cereals could have been cultivated in this area...
Nabil Ben Khatra, Maud Loireau 9 Oct 2017
South Africa will need to review its land reform policy, with an eye to boosting productive land use among the rural poor, if it is to push back rising poverty levels...
Leslie J. Bank and Tim GB Hart 29 Sep 2017
With over half of sub-Saharan Africa consisting of arid and semi-arid lands, the livelihoods of over 400 million people who inhabit these areas are at risk...
Sam Otieno 7 Sep 2017
Fertile soils across the continent are under threat due to climate change and poor land management. Soil is a key component to solving Africa's challenges to ensure food security and address climate change...
Susan Onyango 12 Jul 2017
According to the UNCCD, two-thirds of the African continent is desert or drylands. This land is vital for agriculture and food production, but nearly 75 percent is estimated to be degraded to varying degrees...
Younouss Youn 21 Jun 2017
Tongaat Hulett expects its full-year headline earnings to rise by up to 45%, helped by the rebound in the performance of its sugar operations...
Andries Mahlangu 22 May 2017
As part of the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Programme, Durban aims to create a city that will survive and thrive in spite of environmental and societal changes...
Scientists are warning that we are approaching “peak phosphorus”, the point at which demand begins to outstrip supply and intensive agriculture cannot continue to provide current yields...
Vera Thoss 30 Mar 2017
Fijian president Jioji Konousi Konrote warned of colossal negative impacts on the environment and human societies if the massive stores of carbon trapped in Earth's soils are released...
Most households in tropical sub-Saharan Africa – over 80% – use some form of biomass, such as charcoal or wood as their primary source of energy, mainly for cooking...
Michael Jones and Matthew Saunders 16 Mar 2017
In a recent Bizcommunity interview Design Indaba speaker Brian Collins commented that there has never been a better time to be a startup...
Researchers at Germany's University of Hohenheim have developed solar-powered milk cooling refrigerators for small dairy farmers...
Kennedy Senelwa 1 Mar 2017
Rwanda has introduced a Bill that seeks to dissolve its natural resources authority and form three independent bodies focused on oil, gas, minerals and land, water, and forestry...
Eugene Kwibuka 2 Feb 2017
Swamps, marshes, floodplains and mangrove forests, all known as wetlands, are a precious resource...
Adrian Wood 2 Feb 2017
South Africa is finally embarking on a long-overdue initiative: mapping the incredible biodiversity in Africa's soils...
Esther Ngumbi 18 Jan 2017
The Department of Environmental Affairs' Working for Wetlands Programme has invested R1bn into the rehabilitation of 1200 wetlands and created 25,000 job and much needed training since 2004...
Over the last year, an intense drought in southern Africa has left tens of millions of people in need of food aid. This situation could become a preview of things to come across sub-Saharan Africa...