August 29

• Africa: What's Next for the Green Climate Fund?

  This past week, the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) met for the first time. This was an important milestone around the goal of increasing financial support to help developing... Read more »

August 27

• Cameroon: Nation Enlists Women in Reforestation Effort

  While Cameroon's green forest canopies appear to stretch out endlessly over the horizon, they are in fact getting smaller every year. Read more »

August 22

• Tanzania: Herders Get Free Cows to Cope With Drought

  As recurring drought afflicts much of East Africa's drylands, the Tanzanian government is trying to save the livelihoods of traditional herders by giving them free animals. Read more »

August 16

• Zimbabwe: Nation's Forests Go Up in Smoke Amid Energy Crisis

  Pensioner Thandazani Ndlovu earns his living selling firewood, making him better off than Zimbabwe's millions of jobless. Read more »

August 10

• Africa: How to Avoid Another Food Crisis

  The United States is currently in the midst of a severe drought, its worst in 50 years. Half of all U.S. counties have been declared disaster areas. In response, the international... Read more »

August 9

• Africa: Will Information - or Infrastructure - Help With Food Price Shocks?

  We have heard the story repeatedly - countries fall further behind the rest of the world when they lack the infrastructure needed to sustain growth. It may seem repetitive, but... Read more »

August 8

• Tanzania: Deforestation Fuels Temperature Hikes Around Mt. Kilimanjaro

  A logging boom has hit Tanzania's tourist-drawing Kilimanjaro region, reducing the region's native forests, hitting rainfall and leading to unusually high temperatures. Read more »

August 7

• Kenya: Water Shortages Driving Growing Thefts, Conflicts

  As droughts become more frequent and water shortages worsen, Kenya is seeing an increase in water thefts and other water-related crime, police records show. Read more »

August 6

• Africa: Helping Women Gain a Voice on Climate Change

  What are the gender dimensions of climate change? As a starting point, we know that women and men do not experience climate change equally. Read more »

August 3

• Kenya: Troubled Northern Kenya Seeks Peace Through Conserving Resources

  One of the most effective ways to deal with growing conflict in northern Kenya may be to address the environmental failings that help drive it, says a pastoralist development... Read more »

• Africa: How Much Will it Cost to Deal With Climate Change?

  Estimates of the costs of addressing climate change in developing countries vary substantially from $480 billion to $ 1.5 trillion per year. Read more »

July 30

• Africa: Bamboo Farms Help Save Forests

  It is a chilly morning in Olenguruone village on the southern flank of the Rift Valley, but Gloria Chepng'etich is warming up to the task at hand. Read more »

July 26

• Southern Africa: Cross-Border Park Spurs Water Cooperation

  The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park is a shining example of what can be achieved when countries put their national egos to one side and cooperate to protect their natural assets,... Read more »

• Ethiopia: HIV+ Mother Pulls Family Back From Brink

  With the help of WFP's food support and livelihood assistance programmes, Belaynish Dabe and her HIV-positive husband no longer struggle to feed themselves and their children.... Read more »

July 23

• Africa: Regions Where Water Disputes Are Fuelling Tensions

  Disputes over water are common around the world, exacerbated by climate change, growing populations, rapid urbanisation, increased irrigation and a rising demand for alternative... Read more »

• Africa: Somalia and Egypt Among World's Water-Scarce Hotspots

  Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made problem. Read more »

July 20

• Kenya: Water Harvesting Slakes Thirst At Innovative Kenyan Inn

  When Gaitano Likhavila was still working as an accountant at the provincial hospital in the west Kenyan town of Kakamega, he ran into a situation that got him thinking about water. Read more »

• Africa: Fighting Climate Change with Pastoralism

  Pastoralism is seen as a "backward" way of making a living in many areas of the Horn of Africa, but in a region plagued by extreme weather and climate shocks pastoralists have... Read more »

July 19

• Somalia: Woman Emerges From Hunger Crisis to Start Her Own Business

  Deka Mohamed, 20, is among 250 students who have successfully completed a six-month tailoring course supported by WFP. As a result, Deka's future is looking brighter than it has... Read more »

• Central Africa: Cameroon to Protect Forests With Satellite Monitoring

  Cameroon has joined a Congo Basin initiative that uses satellite imagery to monitor changes in forest cover in an effort to curb deforestation and help Central African countries... Read more »

• Africa: When National Disasters Go Global

  The national Drought Monitor recently declared a drought for almost 80 percent of the contiguous United States, ranging in intensity from "abnormally dry" to "drought-exceptional." Read more »

July 16

• Mali: Food for Worst-Affected People in North [press release]

  See our appeal for funds to help us help the people of northern Mali. Read more »

• Africa: Producing Grain Even When the Rains Fail [analysis]

  Plants germinate, grow, flower, then produce seeds for reproduction. To achieve their life cycle, plants need many things, including soil nutrients, sun, optimal temperatures and... Read more »

July 12

• Tanzania: Cassava Cushions Farmers From Climate Impacts

  Changing weather patterns have forced farmers in Muheza district in Tanzania to move away from growing traditional crops and switch to cassava, which is playing an increasing role... Read more »

• Africa: Family Planning Will Cut Poverty, Say Leaders

  African leaders should increase funding for contraceptive services if they want to reduce poverty and hunger, the prime ministers of Ethiopia and Rwanda said ahead of an... Read more »