I am a researcher with over seven years of experience working on public health topics such as climate change and heat stress ...

An US$80 billion lawsuit filed by Zambian farmers against two Chinese mining companies over a major toxic acid spill has produced a major diplomatic headache for the southern African country as it ...

About 1,394 hectares of crop field have been attacked by fall armyworms in Isoka District in Muchinga Province affecting ...

Under the scorching sun in this southern region of Zambia, Highly Hangoma and his neighbors are busy planting trees in their degraded farmland to increase carbon stock and mitigate the effects of ...

In the parched terrain of Magoye in Zambia's Mazabuka District, about 150 km south of the capital Lusaka, Dixon Lungu braves the blistering afternoon heat as he waters his scorched maize crop. As the ...

Government to boost farmers by buying more maize Government price to be 18 pct more than last season's No ready market for surplus harvest Considers setting up a marketing agency for crops LUSAKA, Aug ...

First targeted European Investment Bank support for sustainable agriculture investment in Zambia; Initiative to increase access to finance, support job creation and enhance agricultural productivity; ...

When Mwaka Sangwa, 63, first arrived in Meheba refugee settlement in North-Western Zambia in 1993, she never imagined that she would end up spending more than half of her life there. Despite losing ...

LILONGWE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambian farmers facing more extreme weather are set to get better early warning and weather information to help them cope, as part of a new grant from the Green ...

Choongo Wycliff, 47, a community-based volunteer for Keepers Zambia Foundation, speaks to recipients of hygiene kits and water storage containers near Lusaka. Keepers Zambia Foundation is raising ...

LUSAKA: Forward-thinking farmers in drought-hit Zambia are planning to trim the amount of maize they plant, switching to faster-growing crops such as beans that can better survive erratic weather. "I ...