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Ethiopia's ecological statecraft
Fall 2025/Leadership

How a bid to plant 50 billion trees transformed Ethiopia

by Shilpa Tiwari

Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative braids together the environment, economy and national identity into a new form of ecological statecraft

Food/Summer 2025

As egg prices soar, African women lead solutions

by Shilpa Tiwari

How East Africa’s women-led poultry co-ops are feeding communities when global markets fail

Energy/Spring 2025

Off-grid solar is redefining energy in Africa 

by Shilpa Tiwari

A market-driven transformation is doing what national grids have failed to do in Africa. Using off-grid solar power to deliver energy directly

2024 Better World MBA/Education/Fall 2024

African MBA programs are reclaiming sustainability in business education

by Shilpa Tiwari

Business schools in Africa are moving beyond colonial influences and recentering the fight against climate change in their own local realities

Climate

How climate change is hitting the iconic Serengeti and Maasai Mara

by Joseph Ogutu

Mara-Serengeti is rapidly warming. Floods, droughts and temperature rises are having a profound effect on wildlife survival and biodiversity

Circular Economy/Summer 2024

These designers are making the most of Africa’s fast fashion waste crisis

by Shilpa Tiwari

Is it enough to take on the torrent of second-hand clothing flooding the continent?

Finance/Spring 2024

Is swapping debt to protect nature the key to solving Africa's climate woes?

by Shilpa Tiwari

For some nations, the suffocating burden of debt gets in the way of climate adaptation. Converting a portion of that debt into

Food/Spring 2024

Africa is already leading the plant-based future

by Shilpa Tiwari

More than a dietary trend, Afro-veganism advocates for a more equitable food system and is spurring innovative solutions from entrepreneurs across the

lithium mining, clean energy, minerals, africa
Mining

Is the 'clean energy' mineral boom failing Africa?

by Malavika Vyawahare

A Global Witness report exposes how the lithium mining rush is reproducing the same model of extractivism that has impoverished African countries

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