An US$80 billion lawsuit filed by Zambian farmers against two Chinese mining companies over a major toxic acid spill has produced a major diplomatic headache for the southern African country as it ...

More and more Zambians are finding their fortune not at the copper mines, but in the water. 27-year-old Sibongile Nthani is ...

For decades, Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ), a historically dominant, state-owned domestic producer, limped along with ...

Access Bank Zambia has confirmed the disbursement of more than K3 billion to 311,000 farmers under the Government’s Farmer ...

Under the scorching sun in this southern region of Zambia, Highly Hangoma and his neighbors are busy planting trees in their degraded farmland to increase carbon stock and mitigate the effects of ...

In the parched terrain of Magoye in Zambia's Mazabuka District, about 150 km south of the capital Lusaka, Dixon Lungu braves the blistering afternoon heat as he waters his scorched maize crop. As the ...

LILONGWE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Zambian farmers facing more extreme weather are set to get better early warning and weather information to help them cope, as part of a new grant from the Green ...

FARMERS have rejected beef imports into the country as there is sufficient supply of product on the local market, the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) has said. The farmers have been making ...

When Mwaka Sangwa, 63, first arrived in Meheba refugee settlement in North-Western Zambia in 1993, she never imagined that she would end up spending more than half of her life there. Despite losing ...

LUSAKA: Forward-thinking farmers in drought-hit Zambia are planning to trim the amount of maize they plant, switching to faster-growing crops such as beans that can better survive erratic weather. "I ...

Choongo Wycliff, 47, a community-based volunteer for Keepers Zambia Foundation, speaks to recipients of hygiene kits and water storage containers near Lusaka. Keepers Zambia Foundation is raising ...

Goernment prices below production costs-farmers Threaten to stop growing maize if prices too low LUSAKA, June 18 (Reuters) - Zambian farmers plan to withhold some white maize after rejecting a floor ...