Zambia is deeply concerned that climate change is posing a serious threat to the country's socio-economic developmental gains and has adopted a National Policy on Climate Change that provides a framework for a coordinated response to the climate challenge, he said....
Climate change has exacerbated encroachment in national parks and game management areas, as people are forced to invade protected areas with remaining forests, Nganga-Ziba said. Despite these challenges, she commended the Zambian government for its political will in combating poaching in the country's...
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Several causes contributed to the power outages of 2015 and 2016. Increasing transmission and distribution losses was one of them. Another was Zambia’s almost complete lack of resilience to droughts, as well increased demand and little change in supply.
President Hakainde Hichilema has declared a national disaster and emergency in response to the crisis. We speak to Patrick Kabanda, a disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation expert in Zambia, to uncover the impact of the drought.
The only time opposition parties are given program airtime on national radio and television is when they have paid for it as advertisements. The private media, especially the Post, continued to practice watchdog journalism, which has sometimes degenerated into insolence and insults against the ...
However, as mentioned in the policy brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization [6], households should not risk losing access to food because of sudden shocks such as an economic or climate crisis, which have not been addressed in the seasonal food insecurity literature. To fill this ...
on the border with Zimbabwe, are part of the Zambezi in the south. The Kafue River drains W central Zambia, including theCopperbeltin the north. There are several large swamps, or flats, in Zambia, which are noted for their concentration of wildlife. The country also has numerous national ...