Kenyan MPs pitch switch to biofuel production to protect environment, create jobs and stabilise local currency
National Assembly Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining Chair Vincent Musyoka said during an engagement with stakeholders in Mombasa and visiting Indian government delegation, ARISE, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and Kenya Sugar Board, that the country needs to embrace biofuel production from cassava, sugarcane and sweet sorghum.
Kenya president unveils Tsavo National Park revenue plan as searchlight turns on his personal, daughter’s interests in tourism investments
The government has invested more than $4.7 million in advanced security technologies to safeguard the sanctuary. These include AI-enabled cameras, drones, aerial surveillance, over 300 security personnel, 250 kilometres of upgraded fencing, and 40 newly built ranger houses.
Why Sahel’s Great Green Wall is a non-starter: International funding often prioritises ‘Western imaginary of Africa’
Originally conceived by Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s late revolutionary leader, the Great Green Wall was launched in 2007 by the African Union. Its goal: to slow desertification in the Sahel region by planting a “wall” of trees 8,000 kilometres long and 15 kilometres wide – from Senegal to Djibouti.
Scientists: African livestock sector breeding programmes designed to lower methane emissions in fight against climate change
Prof Chagunda acknowledged that Africa has not really been benefiting from the production systems compared to other European farmers and gave an example of how despite the same science, biology and animals being used, production of milk for the same breed of cattle would produce much less in Africa compared to Europe.
Pastoralist conservancies in northern Kenya receive Ksh655 million from carbon credit fund
Isiolo County Executive Member for Tourism Lawrence Mwongela said the counties would come up with legislation that would ensure community wildlife conservation was well streamlined. Mwongela said Isiolo county assembly had enacted community conservancy law adding the tourism and wildlife management bill was pending in the house for passage.
