Welcome to Green Planet Group

Across Africa and much of the Global South, small-scale farmers — who produce up to 80% of the region’s food — are facing a silent crisis. Soils that once sustained families are losing fertility at an alarming rate: 65% of farmland is already degraded, and acidity caused by overuse of inorganic fertilizers leaves once-productive land barren. For families living on less than two dollars a day, every lost harvest is devastating. Women farmers and marginalized communities such as the Maasai carry the heaviest burden: poor yields mean children go hungry, households lose income, and the cycle of poverty deepens. At the same time, urban areas are overwhelmed with unmanaged household waste. Sub- Saharan Africa produces more than 125,000 tons of solid waste every day, much of which ends up in open dumps, polluting rivers, soils, and air. In rural areas, millions of farmers burn leftover rice husks, maize stalks, and wheat straws. Globally, this open burning releases over 90 million tons of greenhouse gases annually, fueling climate change and worsening droughts, floods, and crop failures that strike the poorest first. Industries add another layer of challenge by pumping billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, compounding environmental damage. The result is a triple crisis: degraded soils that cannot feed growing populations, toxic emissions from industry and farm waste, and deepening poverty in vulnerable communities. If this trajectory continues, scientists warn that global crop yields could fall by ∫due to soil degradation, threatening food security for hundreds of millions. The human cost will be immense — more children malnourished, more families displaced, and more farmers locked out of prosperity. Now is the time to act. Every season lost pushes communities deeper into crisis. Urgent, innovative solutions are needed to restore soils, capture emissions, and give farmers and their children a fair chance at a resilient future.