Ways on how African industries can save energy

Worldwide energy prices have indeed increased dramatically. In line with this, numerous environmental efforts are also being implemented following the alarming environmental decline. Numerous organizations are now conceptualizing different ways on how to lower down energy consumption and help alleviate excessive carbon emission. With Africa being the second largest continent, African industries should find ways on how they can decrease their energy consumption.

Converting African natural resources to economic development

With its unique geographical location, Africa is rich in natural resources. This advantage can bring economic advancements in the region if properly managed. We all know that a way to convert Africa’s natural resources to an economic development is by exporting minerals. There is indeed another way to convert these assets, and that option is through Local Content policies.

Local content is known as locally sourced components needed for the production of a certain product. Instead of purchasing or acquiring the needed elements from other countries, huge investors will only need to source locally.

Why Biodiversity is Important in Africa?

The Southern African region has a rich natural heritage of global significance to the world’s climate and biological diversity – or biodiversity. It is defined as the degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet.

The Southern African region contains remarkable species richness and diversity. It hosts exceptional ecological processes. South Africa ranks as the third most biologically-diverse country in the world, while in Madagascar, the endemic species richness relative to the land mass area is unparalleled.

Entrepreneurship in Africa

Africa is surely a developing country. Thus, entrepreneurship and social innovation will play a vital role to its growth and economic boom. That’s why the government proposes policies and developments in terms of promoting entrepreneurship and ecosystem to foster the entrepreneurial thinking of Africans. One of their ways to start is through education. Problem is, South Africa has its own weakness in terms of economic and historical past that is a big hindrance on achieving the future growth and success of the country.

Since 1994 where the first democratic elections were held, the government has realized the important role of entrepreneurship to the point that it can change the totality of the economic status of the nation. The government realizes that in order to change the socio-economic status of the country, they should instill entrepreneurship at the grass roots level and up despite high unemployment, deep social and class divides and a highly unequal society.

The benefits of converting Biogas waste to power in Africa

Biogas is a renewable source of energy generated from both animal and human excreta as well as green waste. A renewed material is produced by collecting waste materials which are going to be processed in a digester. The liquid waste can be used as an organic fertilizer while the energy produced will be used to light households. Converting Biogas waste into a source of power is no longer a scientific wonder. It is widely implemented in different countries worldwide including the African Nations.

How Climate Change affects Food Security in Africa

Undoubtedly, climate change is felt all over the planet. Extreme rains or extreme drought is rampant to almost all regions. Unexpected phenomena happen throughout the globe but most especially stroked Africa. Many African countries are already experiencing longer and deeper droughts, floods and cyclones in its history. Because of global warming, the whole continent is subject to disproportionate food security versus its population.

Agroforestry and its importance to the livelihood of African farmers

With the rapidly surging population in developing Africa, the wide scale demand for food security is also expected to increase to around 50% to 80% by the year 2050, according to World Agroforestry Centre’s International Centre for Research in Agroforestry division in Africa.

Because of problems related to overpopulation, lack of sustainable and arable land, decrease in plot sizes, depleted natural resources and urbanisation, the current condition of agricultural systems in Africa should undergo revitalisation, transformation and improvement in policies and governance. By effectively implementing effective programmes, African livelihood can benefit from the agricultural sector.