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Some impounded single use plastics that were collected from different shop in Rwanda. At least 110 tonnes of single-use plastic items in the country have been collected for recycling under a new initiative.

Over 100 tonnes of single-use plastics collected in two months

Monday, August 15, 2022
The signing ceremony took place in Kigali on August 11.

Rwanda, US biotech firm in joint effort to address biosecurity challenges

Friday, August 12, 2022
Central Bank Governor John Rwangombwa addresses the media during a news briefing in Kigali on August 11. / Photo by Dan Nsengiyumva

Central bank raises lending rate to tame inflation

Thursday, August 11, 2022
According to the report, the prices for vegetables increased by 34.4 percent, bread and cereals by 26.3 percent, meat by 18 percent, milk, cheese and eggs by 11.2 percent while non-alcoholic beverages prices increased by 10.4 percent.

Food prices rise by 28 per cent in urban areas

Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Jean-Chrysostome Ngabitsinze interacts with Denis Karera during the opening of East African Business Council, consultative meeting between East African Community, Southern African Development Cooperation and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa in Kigali on August 10.

Agro-processors urged to tap into continental trade platform

Thursday, August 11, 2022
Pedestrians wade through a flooded wetland in Kigali on January 28, 2020. more than 745,000 hectares of agricultural land in Rwanda potentially loses its topsoil every year . File

Experts weigh in on soil erosion-induced losses

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
A flooded wetland at Masaka in Kicukiro District in April. According to the State of Soil Erosion Control in Rwanda May 2022, more than 745,000 hectares of agricultural land in Rwanda are potentially eroded every year.Courtesy

How soil erosion is posing a threat on food security

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
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EDITORIAL; We must act now to save our soils

Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Farmers try to salvage some of their rice produce washed away by floods in Nyagatare District in 2019. According to the report, more than 745,000 hectares of agricultural land is potentially eroded every year.

Rwanda loses over Rwf800bn annually due to soil erosion –new report

Tuesday, August 09, 2022
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Optimism as stalled US$12 million agric project is ‘put back on track’

Monday, August 08, 2022
Workers pack fertiliser at a compost site in Musanze District. Photo: Courtesy.

How three local entrepreneurs struck gold in garbage dumps

Monday, August 08, 2022
A landscape view of former Gikondo industrial park after demolishing properties to conserve wetlands in Kigali in 2020. Under the Kigali City Wetland Master Plan, 3,888 hectares are reserved for conservation. According to the new study, the city has about 37 interconnected wetlands with a total area of about 9,160 hectares.

Study: Kigali City wetlands could generate over $155m annually

Monday, August 08, 2022