Infrastructure & UtilitiesEmpowering Africa’s cities: The case for fiscal autonomy and financial expertiseNara Monkam 23 Apr 2025
Circular Economy & Waste ManagementNew project aims to use automated tech to monitor marine pollution31 Jan 2022
SustainabilityEskom: how does it stack up in the pollution stakes?Rebecca Garland and Kristy Langerman 10 Nov 2021
Sustainable DevelopmentCities urged to build upwards but ditch skyscraper obsessionUmberto Bacchi 3 Jun 2021
Food SecurityFAO, partners' high-tech response to help win fight against desert locust swarms11 May 2021
Environment & Natural ResourcesIvory Coast lost 47,000ha of forest to cocoa production in 2020 - environmental groupAnge Aboa 19 Feb 2021
Infrastructure & UtilitiesSatellite data provides fresh insights into the amount of water in the Nile basinEmad Hasan and Aondover Tarhule 9 Nov 2020
Sustainable FarmingPalm oil: Research shows that new plantations produce double the emissions of mature onesSofie Sjogersten 24 Jan 2020
Research & DevelopmentDaylight and not rains 'drives vegetation growth onset'Nelson Mandela Ogema 18 Nov 2019
Sustainable FarmingAgricultural innovation needed to improve farmers' resilience to drought, says FAO18 Jun 2019
Trends#BizTrends2019: Will the introduction of unmanned ships be smooth sailing?Lana Jacobs 7 Jan 2019
Sustainable FarmingStrict Amazon protections made Brazilian farmers more productive, new research showsRachael Garrett 6 Nov 2018
Agri TechAfrican agriculture has a lot to gain from increased access to big dataEsther Ndumi Ngumbi 22 Aug 2018
AgricultureLand reform and hunger in South Africa: Why the two go hand in handThomas Wolfgang Thurner 1 Jun 2018
FishingData-bait: Using tech to hook globe's multi-billion-dollar fishing cheatsThin Lei Win 16 May 2018
Environment & Natural ResourcesFrom drone swarms to tree batteries, new tech is revolutionising ecology and conservationEuan Ritchie and Blake Allan 10 May 2018
Research & DevelopmentNewly-discovered coastal current has direct implications for fishing industry of Madagascar, SA10 Apr 2018
Data & AnalyticsAfrica Rising: How Geospatial data analytics is transforming governance on the continentDustin Homer 6 Mar 2018
Agri TechDatacentrix hosts smart farming Indaba, takes a look at emerging tech set to disrupt farming12 Dec 2017
Agri TechCGIAR wants to build a big data platform and innovate with startups to help smallholder farmers11 Oct 2017
Agriculture#InnovationMonth: Aerobotics, RanMarine teams up on river water management in #cocreate2AccelerateCari Coetzee 13 Sep 2017
Sustainable FarmingNew FAO satellite tool helps African farmers optimise water productivity24 Apr 2017
ForestryEyes in the sky and on the ground are helping forest conservation in CameroonArend de Haas 17 Mar 2017