Tag Sustainable Development Africa

I’m AnAgripreneur: Africa is turning farm waste into wealth. Can Uganda build a bioeconomy?

For years, agricultural waste has been treated as the unwanted side of farming: coffee husks left around processing plants, maize cobs discarded after harvest, animal manure accumulating on farms and crop residues burned or left to decompose. But across Africa,…

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Africa’s carbon moment: Why Kenya’s new rules could redefine the future of climate finance

For years, Africa’s carbon potential has largely been viewed through the lens of what the continent could offer the world, forests that absorb carbon, renewable energy projects that reduce emissions and natural ecosystems capable of generating carbon credits for companies…

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Confidence before capital: What Tanzania’s clean cooking strategy teaches Africa about building investable markets

By Publicist East Africa Investors rarely fear bad markets; they fear uncertain ones. That distinction explains far more about investment patterns across Africa than many policy debates acknowledge.  Across much of the continent, the greatest constraint is rarely the absence…

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The carbon market gamble: Africa’s new climate economy or a new extraction model?

Across global climate finance circles, carbon has become a currency of urgency, traded, priced, verified, and bundled into corporate sustainability strategies worth billions. But in Africa, where vast forests, wetlands, and grasslands are now being measured as carbon sinks, a…

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