Zambia runs on mostly green power, but households use polluting cooking fuel: study suggests how to fix this: Zambia, like many African countries, is facing a crisis over clean cooking fuel. Over 80% of the population still relies on polluting fuels like charcoal and firewood. This exposes families to toxic indoor air, deepens poverty and …
Ghana needs to stop households from using firewood: what must be done: Cooking on firewood and coal increases air pollution and ill health. Some of the dangers include stunted growth in children and undernutrition in children and adults. Babies who’ve been exposed to charcoal and firewood smoke while in the womb can have reduced birth …
Food scarcity in Liberia: how women who run households cope: Liberia, with a population of just over 5.6 million people, is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with a GDP per capita of US$ 662.50. The lingering effects of two civil wars (1989-2003), Ebola outbreaks (2014-2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) have left Liberia …
How much income is needed to live well in the UK in 2023? At least £29,500 – much more than many households bring in: StanislauV/Shutterstock You don’t have to look very hard at the moment to find evidence of the immense financial pressure on UK households. New figures from the Trussell Trust show that 1.5 …
Nedbank launches Avo Solar to make solar power accessible to more households and businesses: With many South Africans seeking affordable and reliable solar power solutions to protect their homes and businesses from load-shedding, Nedbank has launched its first set of market-leading solar financing packages available on its Avo Solar website. The packages aim to make …
Energy bills: how households could feel the cold this winter: tommaso79/Shutterstock As winter starts to bite, you may be starting to worry again about how much you will have to pay for your gas and electricity over the coming months. Of course, energy isn’t the only rising cost in the current inflation-led economy, which has …
1 in 5 South African households begs for food – the link between food insecurity and mental health: Begging is a strategy often used by homeless people. Fati Moalusi/AFP via Getty Images At least ten million South Africans didn’t have enough food or money to buy food in 2019, according to the country’s statistics agency. …
How to help UK households manage rising energy bills – and decarbonise at the same time: UK households's rising energy costs. Ink Drop/Shutterstock The cost of electricity rose sixfold between January 2021 and November 2022 as the impact of the COVID pandemic combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to push up wholesale energy prices. Without …
How energy-saving advice can hurt the most vulnerable households: Households are facing an unprecedented energy crisis, and the most vulnerable will suffer the most. Solarisys/Shutterstock With UK households facing a dire energy crisis, there has been no shortage of advice from politicians, experts and journalists about how to save energy. Not all of this advice …
Energy crisis: why French households are largely protected from soaring costs while British families struggle: Improvements to the GB power market could help tackle the coming energy crisis. Bohbeh / Shutterstock British households are bracing for a winter of massive energy price increases. The average annual bill is forecast to rise above £4,000, which is …
April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy’s problems are much longer term: Shutterstock/Jane Rix The poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope that traditionally accompanies …
New data shows COVID will continue to have a negative financial impact on many UK households: The economic effects of COVID have not been equal. Shutterstock/Andrii Zastrozhnov Ever since it started, the pandemic has exacerbated the inequality that already existed between households in the UK. Those with secure incomes, savings and assets have been able …
A cool Paternoster image: President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over title deeds to households of Ebenhaeser Image by GovernmentZA President Cyril Ramaphosa with Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane and Western Cape Premier Hellen Zille, handover title deeds to the Chairpersons of the Communal Property Association of the Ebenhaezer, Paternoster and Beeswater. The title deeds are for 3990 hectares …
Check out this Paternoster image: President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over title deeds to households of Ebenhaeser Image by GovernmentZA President Cyril Ramaphosa with Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane and Western Cape Premier Hellen Zille, handover title deeds to the Chairpersons of the Communal Property Association of the Ebenhaezer, Paternoster and Beeswater. The title deeds are for 3990 …
Check out this Paternoster image: President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over title deeds to households of Ebenhaeser Image by GovernmentZA President Cyril Ramaphosa with Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane and Western Cape Premier Hellen Zille, handover title deeds to the Chairpersons of the Communal Property Association of the Ebenhaezer, Paternoster and Beeswater. The title deeds are for 3990 …
Check out this Paternoster image: President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over title deeds to households of Ebenhaeser Image by GovernmentZA President Cyril Ramaphosa with Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane and Western Cape Premier Hellen Zille, handover title deeds to the Chairpersons of the Communal Property Association of the Ebenhaezer, Paternoster and Beeswater. The title deeds are for 3990 …
A nice Paternoster image: President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over title deeds to households of Ebenhaeser Image by GovernmentZA President Cyril Ramaphosa with Minister Maite Nkoane-Mashabane and Western Cape Premier Hellen Zille, handover title deeds to the Chairpersons of the Communal Property Association of the Ebenhaezer, Paternoster and Beeswater. The title deeds are for 3990 hectares …
Cuts to housing benefits led to over 75,000 more overcrowded households during the pandemic: I Wei Huang/Shutterstock COVID-19 has been described as a “housing disease”. Overcrowded living conditions make it easier for the virus to spread, and statistics show a link between overcrowding and mortality from COVID. In my new research published in the International …