Agriculture

More than 2.5 million hectares of land in South Sudan have been acquired mainly by international investors since 2006 This story was produced in partnership with InfoNile and Code for Africa with support from the  Pulitzer Center. STORY UPDATE, April 9 2021: Green Horizon Chief Executive Officer, Gen Israel Ziv was sanctioned by the US government in […]

An InfoNile Original Investigation On the shores of Lake Victoria, southeastern Uganda, a Norwegian timber plantation sells carbon credits on the international carbon market as part of the global effort to fight climate change. Climate finance was designed to bring money and development to the local communities that host such major tree-growing projects. But in Bukaleba Forest […]

Kagondu Njagi KIBWEZI, Kenya, March 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Worried that a drought could wipe out his crops back in 2000, farmer Jonathan Kituku Mung’ala remembered meeting agricultural customers, in his previous job with Kenya’s power company, who were making good money growing a hardy, native tree.