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December 13, 2022
In this bonus episode of Lagos to Mombasa, Gyude invites two experts who were on the ground in Sharm El Sheikh for COP27—the UN’s annual conference on climate—to report back with their observations and takeaways: Faten Aggad of the African Climate Foundation and Ian Mitchell of CGD. Together they di...
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September 06, 2022
Across Africa, every country has designed its energy mix to include a transition away from fossil fuels. How the different regions of the world contribute to a climate solution will become progressively more fraught given that culpability for the crisis is differentiated. Because African countries’ ...
Blog Post
March 18, 2022
The effects of the conflict in Ukraine are reverberating across the world. In Northeast Africa, its ripples endanger the peaceful governance of food and water. Diminished wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine will make Egypt still more conscious of the threat posed to its agriculture by Ethiopia’s G...
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September 09, 2021
This episode of Lagos to Mombasa asks: could ag policy be a means to post-COVID-19 recovery in Africa? Linda Manda of Standard Bank Group and Gillian Pais of McKinsey & Company join Gyude to discuss the true potential of the agriculture sector, not just in addressing Africa’s own food security n...
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March 16, 2021
Since taking office, the Biden Administration has taken several steps to address the climate crisis and plans to do more on the international stage. This trend will be in line with an earlier move by the European Union to “stop funding oil, gas, and coal projects at the end of 2021, cutting €2bn (£1...