Improving weather forecasting to help farmers adapt to climate change
Innovations are underway to help Kenyan farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change courtesy of four modern automated weather stations in Taita Taveta County to monitor weather patterns and advice farmers accordingly using various channels.
In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation.
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Efforts to hold back the Sahara Desert with a wall of vegetation are paying off in Senegal where communities harvest fresh fruits and vegetables from the dry desert sands.
Continue reading …Study calls for inclusion of climate change adaptation to food security investments
April 4, 2013 No Comment
West African policy makers should prepare for future challenges from climate change as they address the pressing needs of broad-based economic growth. Maize, millet, rice, and sorghum are the major cereal crops in the region, yet yields from these crops are very low compared to the world average and even other regions in Africa.
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The international watchdog group Global Witness has welcomed President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s strong action to tackle illegal logging, but urged the government to sanction companies and officials responsible.
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Namibia has reiterated its commitment to host the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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The East African Community and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed a pact that would facilitate the management of the region’s environment and natural resources.
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Scientists working in Democratic Republic of Congo have found a new species of monkey according to an article published in the Scientific Journal Plos One.
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Prof Wole Soboyejo, President and Provost, African University of Science and Technology (AUST) warns against the use of chemicals in the planned clean-up of oil pollution in the Niger Delta region. Soboyejo says it would be safer to use bacteria to clean up the oil spills rather than chemicals. He said that the university in [...]
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An ocean surge crashed into waterfront shanties in Nigeria’s economic capital of Lagos, leaving at least one person dead and 15 missing, officials said Sunday. Rescue officials were evacuating the area and surveying residents, but had so far recovered one body and determined 15 people were unaccounted for from the incident on Saturday. “About 30 [...]
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