The people in your community who are vilified as the "destroyer of the environment"; the farmers, the fishers, the herder, the elder, are your heroes. If you can make even a teeny-tiny contribution to their struggle for dignity and rights, you are helping.
PROTECTION … Newly appointed chairperson of the Namibia Communal Conservancies and Community Forest Alliance (NCCFA), Thomas Muronga, says the formation of the alliance is to become the voice of conservancies, forestry, and all natural resource services.
The world’s wealthiest countries are best placed & obliged under the Paris accords to lead the transition away from fossil fuels. But they are spearheading the latest drilling frenzy, handing out 825 new licences in 2023, largest number since records began https://t.co/ccsoCVA77i
We are excited to share our latest short film that tells the story of the marginalised #Topnaar people in #Namibia who seek recognition for their ocean-related heritage, knowledge & rights
Watch the film https://t.co/ABw5oL0py1
🎞️Masterfully directed by Fanny Lindström @wtysl
#WorldFoodDay#WorldFoodDay2023
𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗛 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗦: 𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗙𝗜𝗟𝗠 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗡 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗕𝗜𝗚 𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗬 𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔
At a time when global hunger is on the rise and the pandemic has dramatically impacted global food systems, corporations are gaining even more control over agriculture than ever. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the largest private charitable foundation in the world, is leading the way in pushing global agricultural development priorities toward industrial and chemical-intensive models--including in Africa, through their investments in the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
This video series, developed by @agrawatch and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, explains why exporting the US agribusiness model to #Africa is a grave mistake.
The authentic African solution is a commitment to #agroecology and #foodsovereignty – the right to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods and the right to define one’s own food and agriculture systems.
Watch all the 5 episodes
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https://t.co/s00XgmFnk5
Namibia had to change their team tonight as World Rugby forced them to play 4 games in 19 days.
For context, France have 14 days before their next game.
Namibia will finish their World Cup before teams like New Zealand have even played their 3rd game. Ridiculous.
“It means that in order for us to reach the scale of financing necessary, we would want these polluters to be bigger, more powerful, more profitable companies so we can tax a little bit of their profits to fund climate action,” he told The EastAfrican.
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https://t.co/GzyZpcgyuM
@_KarenHao "Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order" - this MIT Technology Review series investigates how #AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. https://t.co/TkLwM7e1Nd
The bulk of the money available to fund climate research about Africa is channeled to, and spent by, institutions and researchers located in Europe and America. Less than 1% of authors of the top 100 most cited papers on climate science around the world are based in Africa
A handful of rich Western NGOs set the conservation agenda globally and locally, affecting hundreds of millions of people.
But who sets their agenda? Our investigation looks into the 111 trustees who govern the four most influential conservation NGOs. https://t.co/mFlOSyfotz
@EANamibia@HSFNamibia@NamcorNamibia @Min_of_Mines @NUaandja "The Venus discovery in the orange basin alone ranks as the second largest deep water oil discovery in the world since 2015 and if proven together with the other oil discoveries, has the potential to place Namibia in the top 15 oil producing countries by 2035," she says.
Hundreds of trucks filled with coal destined for Europe were backed up for 7km on the N2 freeway in Richards Bay on Friday because the port lacks capacity to process them.
https://t.co/zwS90sXlqV
In this piece, @iAmKiito, a Tech Policy Fellow at @mozilla, shares insights on how Namibia has the opportunity to be a "healthy data economy" model for Africa by using a community-based approach to untangle the regulatory complexities.
https://t.co/v3k8td5B6W
This is a historic stone cross located in Cape Cross, Namibia. It was erected in 1486 as a navigational landmark and taken by German colonizers to Germany in the 19th century, where it was displayed in a museum. It was returned in 1968 and placed back in Cape Cross.