Jenny Luesby

Journalist at Freelance

Publisher and Co-Founder at Farmbizafrica

Articles

The many boardroom meetings that birthed Business Daily

1 month ago | businessdailyafrica.com | Jenny Luesby

Running down through the Nation Centre building is a circular tower, an icon at roof level for the Group’s headquarter offices. Inside, its circular boardrooms on every floor have housed thousands of news meetings for the Nation Media Group’s host of media channels. The Business Daily (BD) was born in the circular boardroom on the seventh floor. Our champion was a young business news editor, Nick Wachira, who had a vision.
Baku climate conference ignores Africa's power to capture carbon emissions

Nov 13, 2024 | standardmedia.co.ke | Jenny Luesby

Africa holds the potential to capture more than 20 times the world’s oil and gas emissions – blamed for causing climate change - but cannot get a hearing in a global climate agenda that is leading the world into an ever-deeper weather crisis. Global leaders now in Baku at the COP29 environment conference have scheduled natural solutions to climate change as a fifth, or lower, agenda item, behind international carbon trading and an energy transition.
Jenny Luesby - The Southern Eye

Jul 4, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Jenny Luesby |Silas Nkala |Peter Dube |William Vundla

Itâ€™s a carbon source that holds the potential to make our man-made greenhouse gasses nearly insignificant by comparison. By Jenny Luesby 5m ago Water crisis hits Cowdray Park Local Pelandaba MP protests neglect of rural roads Local Gweru robber, rapist jailed 31 years Local King Munhumutapa challenges govt. Local
Saving our soils in Africa may be the only path left to a future

Jul 4, 2024 | newsday.co.zw | Jenny Luesby |Belinda Chiroodza |Tendai Sauta |Miriam Mangwaya

COULD the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change to its main driver? It seems the answer may be yes. For we might be sitting on a ticking carbon bomb. African soil is degrading ever faster, losing us millions of hectares a year.
Saving our soils in Africa may be the only path left to a future | News Ghana

Jun 20, 2024 | newsghana.com.gh | Jenny Luesby

By Jenny Luesby Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change into its main driver? It seems the answer may be yes. For we might be sitting in a ticking carbon bomb. African soil is degrading ever faster, losing us millions of hectares a year.
Saving our soils in Africa may be the only path left to a future

Jun 20, 2024 | modernghana.com | Jenny Luesby

Could the soil of Africa be developing an unstoppable malaise that will transform our continent from an innocent victim of climate change into its main driver? It seems the answer may be yes. For we might be sitting in a ticking carbon bomb. African soil is degrading ever faster, losing us millions of hectares a year.
LUESBY: Pesticides: Europe is creating agricultural sinkhole for Africa

Apr 13, 2024 | the-star.co.ke | Jenny Luesby

PSEUDOSCIENCE POLITICS LUESBY: Pesticides: Europe is creating agricultural sinkhole for Africa African governments now juggling between limiting export collapse and ensuring food production and food security at home.
Europe is creating an agricultural sinkhole for Africa, to uphold the politics of pseudo science

Mar 18, 2024 | standardmedia.co.ke | Jenny Luesby

As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports. But how is it that locking out Kenyan horticulture, South African oranges, and Tanzanian sunflower seeds has become such a burning issue for Africa’s biggest agricultural trading partner? The answer lies in pest control.
Europe is creating an agricultural sinkhole for Africa

Mar 14, 2024 | kbc.co.ke | Jenny Luesby

As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports. But how is it that locking out Kenyan horticulture, South African oranges, and Tanzanian sunflower seeds has become such a burning issue for Africa’s biggest agricultural trading partner? The answer lies in pest control.
LUESBY: Dangers Of Farmers' Protests In Europe On Kenya Trade

Mar 11, 2024 | viraltea.co.ke | Jenny Luesby |Ooro George |Marvin Chege |Denver Bagaka

Opinion & Editorial For when the European Union launched its Green Deal climate action plan in 2019, with the noble aim of reducing the emissions driving climate change, it threw in an extra green target of phasing out the use of pesticides.