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December 16, 2011
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Kenya: Youth Return From COP17 Aiming to Take Action on Climate
As extended climate change talks ended in Durban, South Africa, on Sunday with much unresolved despite agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol through 2017, a group of young Kenyan... Read more »
December 15, 2011
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Kenya: Drought Insurance Falls Short
The rains have finally arrived in northern Kenya's Marsabit district, and Huka Dabaso plans to buy 10 cattle to replace the animals he lost during this year's severe drought. He... Read more »
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Africa: Closing Gender Gap Seen Key in Food Security Fight
A policy aimed at ensuring future security of food supplies must centre around the world's 500 million smallholder producers, many of whom are women who farm less than two hectares... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Conversations - Reaching Small Farmers With Innovations They Can Afford
It would be hard to walk down a village track in India without coming across a shack displaying colourful strips of shampoo sachets for 1 rupee (nearly 2 cents) or stacks of mini... Read more »
December 13, 2011
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West Africa: Climate Change Killing Trees in Sahel - Study
Long-term drought linked to climate change is causing trees to die in Africa's Sahel region, south of the Sahara desert, according to a scientific study to be published on Friday. Read more »
December 12, 2011
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Africa: Climate Conversations - COP17 in Durban - Older People and Climate Change
A future commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions is "the defining issue" of COP17. So said Christiana Figueres, the UN's lead climate official, in front of delegates from over... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Talks Agree to Keep Disagreeing On Emissions [opinion]
The outcome of COP17 is a cop out and a compromise that no doubt saves the climate talks, but is not adequate to reverse dangerous climate change and secure the livelihoods of... Read more »
December 9, 2011
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West Africa: UN Sounds Alarm Over Growing Hunger in the Sahel
Millions of people in Africa's Sahel region need urgent help to cope with food shortages brought on by erratic rainfall and drought, and at least 1 million children in the area... Read more »
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Kenya: Traditional Practices Suffer in Drought
The prolonged drought afflicting the dryland region of northern Kenya has brought misery to the nomadic communities who rely on rain to water and feed their livestock. Read more »
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Africa: Getting Young People Heard At U.N. Climate Talks [column]
It's official: Chris Huhne and I could be best friends for life. We first met a few weeks ago in London - at a Youth Climate Question Time debate at the UK Foreign Office. Read more »
December 8, 2011
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South Africa: Delayed Climate Deal a Risk to Food Production, AG Specialists Say
The dun maize field spreading out at Dumisani Ndlovu's offers a hint of a bleak future. Baked by the sun and deprived of water, the crops on his farm in Giyani, in South Africa's... Read more »
December 6, 2011
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Africa: Agroforestry Offers Africa an 'Evergreen' Future [analysis]
The fertiliser tree, Faidherbia albida, is inter-cropped with maize in southern Tanzania. Read more »
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Africa: Family Planning 'Effective' but Unpopular Climate Change Solution
As the world's population races past 7 billion, curbing population growth is crucial to slowing the climate-changing emissions people cause, scientists say. Read more »
December 5, 2011
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Africa: Climate Conversations - Citizens' Groups Lose Faith in Climate Talks [opinion]
As the first week of the Durban climate talks drew to a close, an increasing feeling of desolation seemed to engulf participants as they trawled through the hallways and meeting... Read more »
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Africa: Preparation for Climate Displacement Too Slow, Experts Say
Climate impacts such as worsening droughts, flooding, storm surges and sea level rise could displace tens of millions of people by mid-century, scientists predict. But national and... Read more »
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Africa: Climate Conversations - Staying Positive As Climate Talks Hit Delays [opinion]
One of the most frequent questions I am asked at the international climate negotiations goes along these lines: "How do you remain positive when you, a citizen and representative... Read more »
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Africa: Food Processing Curbs Climate Losses for Women Farmers
Jullienne Engono has good reason to look pleased with herself. The 49-year-old farmer has won first prize for food processing at an agricultural show in Awae town in southern... Read more »
December 3, 2011
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Africa: Without Healthy Farms, Africa's Forecast Is Hunger [opinion]
A wise man once said, a hungry man is an angry man. The same goes for the farmer who cannot feed herself. Read more »
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Africa: Just Add Cash for Climate Adaptation [opinion]
It's really quite simple. For the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), "funding is paramount," to use the succinct summary provided by Pa Ousman Jarju, the Gambian chair of the LDC... Read more »
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Mali: Climate Information - Farmers' Most Valuable Tool?
Last year in villages across Mali, some farmers harvested bumper crops of millet, sorghum and maize, while their neighbours struggled to produce a high-enough yield to feed their... Read more »
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Madagascar: Country Squares Up to 'Extreme' Climate Vulnerability
If climate change makes the vulnerable more vulnerable, as many experts believe, Madagascar can expect to face serious problems. Read more »
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East Africa: Insurance Aims to Help Herders Avoid 'Downward Spiral' From Drought
Equipping illiterate migratory herders with drought insurance in one of the driest regions of drought-prone East Africa might seem a big task, particularly in a region where claims... Read more »
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Chad: Combining Traditional Knowledge and Climate Science [analysis]
Bouba Mal Yaya is a herdsman from the Fulani-Mbororo peoples in Chad. Along with his fellow herders, he had been expecting good grazing for his cattle this year but this has not... Read more »
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Africa: Africans Look to Climate Negotiators to Protect Their Interests
housands of climate diplomats, experts, lobbyists, activists and tourists are descending on Durban for the next two weeks, intent on influencing the outcome of the latest in the... Read more »
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Africa: Islands in a Pinch As Emissions Surge and Climate Talks Crawl [analysis]
It's obvious to most at the U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, that there's a dramatic mismatch between the worrying pace of climate change and the crawling progress of... Read more »
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