Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development-Value Chain Development Programme, has distributed rice farm inputs worth more than N25m to farmers in Enugu. The inputs were distributed during the beginning of the Agency’s 2022/2023 dry season agro-input distribution at the IFAD/VCDP office in Enugu. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the items include bags of rice seeds, bags of NPK fertilisers, bags of Indorama Urea fertilisers, herbicides of selective and non-selective brands. Others are, rice planters and harvesters, de-stoning machines, water pumps, rice milling machines, cassava processing machinesAddressing the farmers, the National Programme Coordinator, Dr. Fatima Aliyu, said the programme…
US President, Joe Biden at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh. The event has been heralded as “Africa’s COP”.A piece of legislation championed by US President Joe Biden could be a game-changer for clean energy supply chains – and, by association, African economies. Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is a climate law aimed at cutting emissions by driving clean technology manufacturing. Although the Act, which Biden signed into law in August, is targeted at Americans, the knock-on effect for wind, solar, battery and other green technologies will be good news for economies across the African continent. Africa needs more than US$2 trillion of investment…
Climate technology programme for Africa launched at COP27.A new programme to help African states plan and scale new decarbonisation solutions and blunt the devastating effects of climate change has been launched at COP27. The programme will propel new capital flow in climate tech to help nations harness and build renewable energy systems to power their economies. Senior officials from several governments, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), launched the initiative that runs until 2027. The Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) – the two bodies of the Technology Mechanism under…
