SADC countries must scale up efforts to procure adequate seed for farmers ahead of the 2016 – 2017 cropping season to avert another year of food shortages after a drought that ravaged the region in the last season left millions hungry, a senior UN Food and Agriculture Organisation says. Read More

The El Nino – induced drought that ravaged the entire Sadc region in the 2015 – 2016 farming season killed 643 000 livestock estimated to be between US$96 million and US$1,9 billion, a senior Sadc Climate Services Centre official says. Read More

Zimbabwe and most other SADC countries are due to go up against tough opponents when 182 parties gather for the world’s most important wildlife trade conference – the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) that kicks off in South Africa on September 24. Read More

Wildlife experts and environmentalists are urging the global wildlife community to support Zimbabwe and other Sadc countries which are pressing the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to lift the ban on the trade in ivory. Read More

South Africa will host one of the world’s most important environmental conferences from 24 September to 5 October 2016, the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora 17th Conference of Parties (CITES COP17), as Kenya plans to block Namibia and Zimbabwe’s ivory trade bids. Read More