If farmers want to cope with the changing climatic conditions especially droughts, they should adopt irrigation. Irrigating crops during droughts, even for scientifically improved crops, is important in case farmers want to achieve good yields.
Women are the most affected by the effects of climate change, the latest United Nations Population report has revealed.
Akin Adesina, vice president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Agra), talked to AllAfrica about the work of the young, Nairobi-based institution and how its priorities and programs are evolving to improve food security across Africa. Agra was founded in 2006, with initial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Bill Gates recently ...
All international agreements are moulded around the fine diplomatic art of compromise. The upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen are no different; compromises will have to be made by all parties in one form or another. But the real question we need to ask is whether these compromises will inadvertently trigger chain reactions that stand to damage the environment rather than protect it.
The committee of ten African Heads of States and Government on climate change (CAHOSCC) disclosed that Africa has identified priorities on strategies and institutional mechanisms to make firm the continent's common position on climate change in the run up to the Copenhagen summit next month.
(1) Avoiding the mistakes of the 1992 UN's Rio earth summit in Copenhagen
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say.
Rising from a recent summit on Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) organized by a group of developing countries in Maldives to fine-tune their position at the next month's climate change meet in Copenhagen, zero carbon tolerance has been canvassed.
Rwanda offers one of the best investment opportunities on the African continent and doing business in the country has been eased by a set of reforms that favour investors, a renown Germany entrepreneur told The New Times yesterday.
Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State yesterday faulted moves by the House of Representatives to site headquarters of the proposed Erosion and Flood Commission in Abuja insisting that it must be located within the southeast zone where the problem is rampant.
Poor women will bear the greatest 'climate burden', says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today.
Mombasa Polytechnic University College students on Friday held a special event to showcase their concern for the climate change if the planned World Summit on Copenhagen does not come up with an amicable solution.
The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government has set aside R20 million to rebuild houses for the families who were left homeless after a storm hit the Nkwezela area on 6 November.
"Hunger is the lack of rain." ("A fome é a falta de chuva"): these are the words of a local farmer from Chicualacuala, a small town situated in the South-west of Mozambique, when asked about the causes of food insecurity in the country.
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
