Yacouba Savadogo is a farmer, community leader and natural resource innovator from the village of Gourma, in the Yatenga Province of Burkina Faso. Yacouba began to experiment with planting pits and contour stone bunds (small dikes) in order to produce more sorghum and millet on his degraded land in 1979 after observing other farmers use similar techniques through an Oxfam program. By digging ...
Transcript of remarks by President Barack Obama of the United States and President Ian Khama of Botswana after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday November 5, 2009:
The United Nations refugee agency is appealing for $2.8 million to provide essential supplies and respond to possible disease outbreaks among more than 300,000 refugees in two camps in Kenya threatened by flooding.
THE Commonwealth has asked developing member states in Africa to invest in activities which reduce the impact of climate change.
THE Government is to re-consider funding the model farmers in Karamoja whose crops failed to germinate due to drought.
THE recent call by former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, for global cooperation to avert the catastrophic consequences of climate change ought to be heeded by Nigeria as the country falls within the category of vulnerable and least developed nations that would bear the brunt of the greenhouse emissions, if appropriate actions are not taken.
South Africa will join other leading nations in calling for a comprehensive, ambitious and fair international climate change deal to be clinched at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Oxfam today warned that EU countries must cut themselves loose from the US or risk losing a groundbreaking climate deal that has been two years in the making. The aid agency says a fair and safe deal can be struck in Copenhagen this year, but world leaders cannot wait whilst the US plays catch-up.
The Standard draws attention to one of the many deluges which have invaded our country -- a "deluge of floods". But why worry? If, for all these years, Kenyans have survived a daily million of tsunamis from politicians' mouths, what can touch them?
Maputo Mayor David Simango said in Maputo on Thursday that this city needs urban planning that includes measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change.
United Nations climate talks resumed yesterday in Barcelona after African nations agreed to return to the table that negotiates emissions targets for 37 industrialized countries.
Environment Minister Buyelwa Sonjica is "cautiously optimistic" about a deal on climate change being hammered out at the forthcoming Copenhagen conference. But no deal would be better than a weak deal, she said, and SA as a developing nation would not commit itself to specific emission reduction targets.
The City of Cape Town is in for a cold, wet and windy weekend.
THE small holder farmer in Africa has always depended on instinct, a bit of observation, and knowledge passed on from his forefathers. Using instinct a farmer would predict the rainy season and dry season. Today, the same farmer can neither predict the rainy nor the dry season.
On the eve of the climate change summit in Copenhagen this December, momentum for action still falls far short of that needed to avert catastrophe. Africa will suffer consequences out of all proportion to its contribution to global warming, which is primarily caused by greenhouse gas emissions from wealthy countries.
