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December 02, 2011
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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 »
December 01, 2011
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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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Africa: Scientists Seek Solutions to Rising Costs of Drought
Drought costs the world an average of $42 billion in economic losses a year, and creates wide-ranging economic pressures. For instance, a bad dry spell in the United States, a... Read more »
November 30, 2011
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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 »
November 28, 2011
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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: 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 »
November 26, 2011
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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: Not Everybody Is Talking Climate Change This November [opinion]
Some may say climate change has become an overrated development agenda. (Coming from a climate-vulnerable country - Bangladesh - I would reply this is what it ought to be.) But a... Read more »
November 25, 2011
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West Africa: Five Steps to Avert a Food Crisis
Aid groups have warned that a food emergency is looming in West Africa after erratic rainfall, drought and insect infestations decimated crops in the region's arid Sahel belt,... Read more »
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