Malawi is set to become the latest African country to legalize marijuana farming in a bid to boost its economy.

Scientists in the US have engineered tobacco plants that can grow up to 40% larger than normal in field trials.

Smoking isn’t just harmful to human health, it’s also damaging the planet. That’s the key message of a new report commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) into the environmental costs of tobacco production.

The yield of many staple crops could be boosted by 40 percent by a new process that adjusts the way they turn sunlight into energy, potentially feeding hundreds of millions of more people, American researchers said on Thursday.

The recently launched Black Tobacco Farmers Association (BTFA) on Monday called for the government to keep excise taxes at their current level as Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will table his maiden budget this week.

Zimbabwe prepares for the opening of the 2019 Tobacco Marketing season set to start on the 21st of March, the local market is hyped up in anticipation. In 2018, Zimbabwe produced an all-time high of 252.6 million kgs of leaf tobacco and raked $892 million from exports of 184 million kgs of the commodity to the world market.

Out in the wild, it's often every creature for itself—even plants. Left to their own devices, most wild species of plants only create enough energy to put down roots and produce leaves and seeds. But humans wanted more.

A sudden drop in the price of tobacco could not have come at a worse time for Zimbabwe. Halfway through the selling season, the price is about 37% lower than last year — at a time when, on its current trajectory, inflation could hit 100% by year-end.

Altria Group Inc., the U.S. maker of Marlboro cigarettes, made a $1.8 billion investment in Cronos Group Inc. on Friday amid pressure to find new growth avenues as U.S. smoking rates decline.

Tobacco farmers in South Africa face an enormous cash flow problem.

early 300 000 jobs are at risk if government continues with its ban on cigarette sales during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to the South Africa Tobacco Transformation Alliance (SATTA).

In recent years, anti-tobacco lobbyists globally are gaining ground in their bid to drive the golden leaf from the face of the earth.

Zimbabwe is ranked in the top 20 countries in the world most affected by extreme weather between 2000 and 2019.

Zimbabwe is the largest tobacco producer in Africa and in 2018, the crop accounted for about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product.

Mixing cannabis and nicotine isn’t uncommon – especially in Europe, Australia and Israel.

It’s now more commonly known that alcohol and tobacco use make us ill. Less known is that just four industries account for at least one-third of global preventable deaths.

Tobacco use imposes a large health and economic burden worldwide.

Fastone Goma, a physician and chair of the Zambia Non-Communicable Disease Alliance, has been working for more than 15 years to pass tobacco cessation legislation in Zambia.

Environmental, social and governance investing, also known as impact or socially responsible investing, has become a popular concept. It’s based on awareness of the impact that firms have on the environment and on human wellbeing. Socially responsible investing recognises that these factors increasingly influence financial performance and thus investor returns.