{"id":205596,"date":"2025-08-27T05:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-turning-waste-into-wealth-minister-urges-investment-in-green-innovation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T05:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T03:44:50","slug":"zimbabwe-turning-waste-into-wealth-minister-urges-investment-in-green-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-turning-waste-into-wealth-minister-urges-investment-in-green-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: &#8216;Turning Waste Into Wealth&#8217; &#8211; Minister Urges Investment in Green Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Environment, Climate and Wildlife Minister Evelyn Ndlovu has called for bold investment in waste-to-value chains, saying agricultural and organic waste should be seen as a vital economic resource rather than a burden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking at the 2025 Green Indaba held on the sidelines of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show, Ndlovu told government officials, farmers, industry players and environmentalists that the country must urgently scale up investment in circular economy solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;Agricultural waste, when&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508260457.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment, Climate and Wildlife Minister Evelyn Ndlovu has called for bold investment in waste-to-value chains, saying agricultural and organic waste should be seen as a vital economic resource rather than a burden. Speaking at the 2025 Green Indaba held on the sidelines of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show, Ndlovu told government officials, farmers, industry players and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,12626,7467,6018,5941,257,254,15335,6810,11569,6273,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-green","tag-innovation","tag-investment","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turning","tag-urges","tag-waste","tag-wealth","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}