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Live blog: Kenya cannot be the plastic dumping site for the USA
On this Black Friday, don’t sell Kenya as a plastic bin to the USA, President Kenyatta. We need a plastic free country.
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Black Friday: Don’t Let Kenya be the USA Plastic Dumpster
In just a few days, the US will be marking Black Friday - a routine shopping event that encourages thoughtless mass buying characterised by huge discounts and a lot of plastic packaging.
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Bees in Crisis: Toxic insecticides a threat to food security
Bees play a critical role in food and nutrition security in Kenya through cross-pollination. They are also a source of income for farmers, through products such as honey, pollen, beeswax, propolis and royal jelly.
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Action is needed from the government to tackle climate change beyond promises made in COP Demands Greenpeace Africa
Nairobi, 5th November 2021- In response to the media reports that President Uhuru Kenyatta is positioning Kenya to be Africa’s voice on climate change at the UN Security Council and…
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Open letter to the Ministry of Agriculture
Following chemical control operations against locust infestation in Kenya in March 2021, Greenpeace Africa (GPAF) carried out an environmental sampling and analysis between March and April 2021 to identify the pesticides used in spraying the locusts.
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Three takeaways as Kenya marks 4 years since the ban on single-use plastic bags.
It is exactly four years since Kenya banned the use of single-use plastic carrier bags. It is important that as we mark the 4th anniversary, and as the world enters…
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Kenya’s Fourth Plastic Ban Anniversary
As Kenya marks the fourth anniversary of the ambitious plastics ban much has been achieved including limiting the pollution by carrier bags and the president's directive in protected areas but, still more needs to be done.
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Three takeaways as Kenya marks 4 years since the ban on single-use plastic bags.
It is exactly four years since Kenya banned the use of single-use plastic carrier bags. It is important that as we mark the 4th anniversary.
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Greenpeace Africa demands Truthfulness in the Pesticides Conversation in Kenya.
"Kenyan farmers deserve to know the truth about pesticides. The associations championing the use of pesticides have misled our farmers, who deserve the truth about toxic pesticides’’.
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Farmers Need Protection From Revolving Drought Episodes In Kenya
"Small scale farmers who produce 80% of the food consumed in Kenya don’t need to read the full text of the IPCC report to know climate variability. They are often hit by recurring long periods of drought and floods year after year"