Kenya Climate Innovation Centre to raise $55m to scale up climate solutions in 10 African markets
Africa receives about a quarter of the climate finance it needs each year. Kenya Climate Innovation Centre has spent 14 years incubating more than 3,500 climate enterprises, has opened that pipeline to outside investors through its new Founders Collective, and is raising $55 million to expand from three countries to at least 10 by 2030.
Traditional climate knowledge in Fiji and Vanuatu proves vital for climate adaptation
Coastal communities in Fiji and Vanuatu have read weather, protected coastlines, and managed fisheries through knowledge passed down for generations, none of it written down. A University of Fiji study spent eight months recording it before it disappears, and found one village already facing the choice climate change is about to force on many more.
Zimbabwe's climate-resilient crops vital for Africa's food security
Climate change is pushing Zimbabwe's conventional crop value chains toward failure across all five of the country's agroecological regions. Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is betting on vegetables that grew wild for generations, now bred, seeded, and sold back through a farmer network 430 strong.