While the EUDR provides a pathway for African countries to adopt sustainable farming, it also imposes significant compliance pressures, especially for smallholder farmers. On December 30, 2025, the ...

The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper and cobalt. These are needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar ...

Africa needs its forests for sustainable development, poverty reduction, food security, and to make the continent more resilient to climate change. They take up 23% of the continent. At 674 million ...

Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active ...

The Amazon rainforest is crucial for the global carbon cycle, yet annual changes in its aboveground biomass carbon (AGC) stock remain highly uncertain. Natural and local anthropogenic drivers such as ...

According to the State of Food and Agriculture released last month, between 2001 and 2023 sub-Saharan Africa lost 72 million hectares of forests – an area about the size of Kenya. The primary driver ...

Deforestation in Africa continues to outpace restoration efforts and is fast approaching a tipping point. To avoid reaching it, delegates at COP30 must adopt a more proactive and comprehensive ...

A new study co-authored by a WWF scientist documents waves of forest degradation advancing like ripples in a pond 75 miles across East Africa in just 14 years. A new study co-authored by a WWF ...

By Naina Rao Food conglomerate Mondelēz International, the owner of chocolate brands Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone and Oreo, has ...

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By Ben Ezeamalu and May Angel AKURE, Nigeria Aug 17 (Reuters) - Ojo Ayaninuola, a small-scale cocoa farmer from Akure in southwestern Nigeria, was initially reluctant to let exporters map and ...