ZAMBIA: Parents’ Fears Slowing Uptake of Paediatric AIDS Treatment
Diana Banda* is quickly running out of excuses to give her six-year-old son about why he has to take a schedule of drugs every day. Her son David* is HIV-positive and has been on anti-retroviral...
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ZAMBIA: Unsolved Riddle of Sustaining Water Utilities
Sebastian Chilekwa’s job title at the Luapula Water and Sewerage Company is “Managing Director of Dilemma”. Or it should be. Sebastian Chilekwa, Managing Director, Luapula Water and Sewerage Company...
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ZAMBIA: Hope for Women Politicians
Mirriam Kauseni is on a quest to become her town’s first ever female parliamentarian. She has yet to be elected to run for the post by her party, the Patriotic Front (PF), but Kauseni has already been...
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Establishing Environmental Flows in the Zambezi
When Jose Chiburre was a boy growing up in Mozambique, he would often challenge his friends to a swim across the Incomati River. That was in the 1970s, when the river was 300 metres wide in the dry...
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Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security in Zambia
Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country’s food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way for large-scale local...
View ArticleCottoning on to Outsourcing Farming
Five years ago, Forbes Gwilize, 52, a cotton grower from Musena village, 80 kilometres north of the Zambian capital Lusaka, was hardly able to earn a living from farming maize. “My biggest problem was...
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