By Faren Sakupwanya and Jessie Zimba The head of Native, a sustainable Brazilian sugar cane company, shares his thoughts on the challenges facing the food industry in the light of the Rio +20 Earth Summit. Leontino Balbo Jr. is one of the main directors of the Balbo group and at the head of Native, a Brazilian sugar cane company that has been taking innovative action to achieve complete sustainability for nearly thirty years. The Rio +20 Earth Summit made now an ideal time for him to share with us his views on the achievements and future goals of sustainable food...

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet The Honorable Dr. Guy Scott, Vice President of the Republic of Zambia, and Dr. Charlotte Harland Scott, in the Blue Room during a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit dinner at the White House, Aug. 5, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Harland_Scott / www.rainbownewszambia.com Be the first to like. Like Unlike

Sunday, December 16, 2007 By Bivan Saluseki Sunday December 16, 2007 [03:00] ZAMBIA’S privatisation programme ranks as the biggest fraud in economic history, discloses former Zambia Privatisation Agency (ZPA) director James Matale. Matale served as director from November 1992 until he was fired in September 1994. He says the destruction of the public enterprises during the Chiluba regime that accounted for over 80 per cent of economic activity was an act of unprecedented vandalism. “It surpassed even the destructiveness of the definitive Attila the Hun. Zambia lost economic investments and assets accumulated over a period of 100 years,” he says....