April 24

• Africa: Can Rural Women Also Have It All?

  In recent months, two new "third-wave feminist" writings have become the talk of the town: Anne-Marie Slaughter's Why Women Still Can't Have it All and Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In:... Read more »

April 19

• Africa: Green Pursuits Earn Innovators Forest Hero Awards

  Five people named "Forest Heroes" at an awards ceremony at the U.N. Forum on Forests (UNFF) in Istanbul take very different approaches in the fight to preserve forests. Read more »

April 18

• Africa: Tackling Food Insecurity in a Resource-Scarce World

  Today, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity. Food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural... Read more »

• Africa: Is Adapting to Climate Change as Easy as Economists Say?

  A recent article in The Economist magazine asserted that the air temperature of the planet has been flat for the past 15 years despite a steady increase in the greenhouse gas... Read more »

• East Africa: Half a Million Kenyans, Ethiopians Face Conflict, Hunger Due to Dam - Report

  Half a million Kenyans and Ethiopians are likely to be displaced, go hungry and face conflict due to a controversial dam linked to a forcible resettlment programme 'bankrolled' by... Read more »

April 17

• West Africa: Sahel Food Crisis Response 'Better' but More to Do - Oxfam

  The humanitarian response to the 2012 food crisis in Africa's Sahel region was bigger and better than in previous emergencies, but millions of people still did not receive the... Read more »

April 16

• Kenya: Nairobi's New Bike Lanes Aim to Cut Congestion and Pollution

  Cyclists in Nairobi are benefiting from the Kenyan government's plan to reduce congestion and pollution with new highway construction. Read more »

April 15

• Africa: Climate Impacts on Children, Home and The Modern Family? [opinion]

  Why is climate change so difficult an issue to rally people around? Why have other thorny and politically sensitive issues - such as gay marriage - managed to eventually find... Read more »

April 12

• Africa: Forest-Tenure Reform Advances, But Questions Remain [interview]

  In the past three decades, at least 200 million hectares of forest have been legally transferred to local communities or indigenous people. As a result, communities now own or... Read more »

April 11

• Africa: Rich Nations Should Approach Private Climate Finance With Caution [opinion]

  This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is hosting a ministerial meeting on mobilising climate finance. Read more »

• Africa: Three Ways to Unlock Climate Finance

  Ministers and senior officials from developed countries will gather this Thursday in Washington, D.C. to tackle one of the world's foremost challenges: how to mobilise private... Read more »

April 10

• Africa: Want a Real Expert on Climate Change? Ask Those Worst-Hit

  Back in 2010, farmers in northern Malawi were advised to stop growing local maize varieties and switch to faster-maturing hybrids, to protect them from a shortening rainy season. Read more »

• Malawi: Malawians Rethink Maize Planting as Climate Dries

  Less than three years after Ezelina Nyirongo reluctantly abandoned cultivation of her favourite local maize varieties, the 48-year-old from Rumphi in northern Malawi is thinking of... Read more »

• Africa: Training Manual Helps Researchers Tackle Forest Tenure

  Tenure rights to forests are notoriously complex - a new guide by the Center for International Forestry Research attempts to help students, researchers and practitioners understand... Read more »

April 9

• Africa: Forest Foods Should Be Used in Fight Against Global Malnutrition - Scientist

  Nutrient-rich forest foods could play an important role in efforts to provide healthy diets for people around the world if they are identified in national nutrition strategies and... Read more »

April 8

• Africa: 'Dirty Science' - Excavating the Truth About Mangroves and Carbon

  Chest-deep in brackish, tea-coloured water, a team of scientists wades into a towering mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Read more »

• Africa: Fund Distribution for Scheme to Slow Global Warming Needs to Be Transparent

  Initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forest loss (REDD+) need to be financially transparent and accountable, an Interpol expert said. By closely involving... Read more »

• Africa: World Health Day 2013 - Combating Malnutrition and Infection With Forests

  World Health Day is a time when - as a nutritionist - I think about the links between nutrition and infection. Read more »

April 7

• Africa: Forcing Firms to Do Costly Biodiversity Surveys Often Backfires

  Forcing timber, mining and plantation companies to carry out costly, time-consuming and for-the-most-part incomplete biodiversity surveys on their holdings could drive away those... Read more »

April 5

• Africa: Why Planting More Trees Is Always a Good Idea

  A new review of strategies to prepare for the impacts of climate change shows that expanding forests worldwide by planting more trees is unambiguously a good idea. But if not... Read more »

• North Africa: Urbanisation, Extreme Weather Raise Disaster Risk in Arab Region

  Disaster risks are growing in the Arab world, particularly as countries urbanise, but improved governance and communication could help reduce that risk, a report from the United... Read more »

April 4

• Tanzania: Tanzanian Herders Fight State Plan to Lease Land

  Thousands of pastoralists in northern Tanzania are protesting against a government move to expand the amount of land it leases to foreign investors, because they will no longer be... Read more »

• Africa: Corruption Threatens Efforts to Slow Forest Loss - Experts [analysis]

  UN-backed efforts to slow forest loss could be derailed by corruption, experts warned as they pointed to a potentially dangerous combination: an opportunity to make a lot of money... Read more »

April 3

• Kenya: As Extreme Weather Drives Rustling, Pastoralists Turn to Farming

  In Nambeyo village in Kenya's semi-arid Isiolo County, former pastoralist Joseph Elila and his wife Pauline are busy threshing sorghum to remove the grain from the stalks. The... Read more »

• Africa: How to Balance Forests and Food? [opinion]

  A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. Read more »