South Africa: Easy Ways to Save Water Around the House

It's World Environment Day and the Western Cape continues to battle severe drought. Residents can do their part by employing these water-saving tips to help ease the strain on… Read more »

Africa: With or Without The US, Africa Must Push Ahead With Paris Climate Pledges

The decision by President Trump to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change will be greeted with anger, dismay and incomprehension across the African… Read more »

Africa: Industrializing Africa - the Green Way

When industrialization is mentioned I get a bit uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong I'm not "anti-progress". It's just that that word conjures up images of big polluting factories,… Read more »

Africa: So What's the Big Fuss About No-Till Agriculture?

Soil needs nurturing. Like any living organism it requires just the right combination of nutrients and organic matter in order to be healthy. A tenet of conventional agriculture… Read more »

Africa: How to Adapt to Beat Crippling Droughts

Right now, 14 million people across southern Africa face going hungry due to the prolonged drought brought on by the strongest El Niño in 50 years. Read more »

Africa: African Civil Society Under Threat, Warns Mary Robinson

The decline of human rights on average across Africa is worrying Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and now a special envoy on climate… Read more »

Africa: Good Governance and Democracy Make for Better Land Use - Expert

On the sidelines of the recent meeting on climate science in Paris, AllAfrica spoke with Ephraim Nkonya, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research… Read more »

Africa: African Scientists Promote Solutions to Mitigate Climate Change

Leading African experts at the scientific conference in Paris which is preparing for the next round of global climate change talks in December have been discussing their work with… Read more »

Africa: Will Africa Be Heard At Climate Science Talks?

The global scientific community is meeting at a conference in Paris this week to strengthen the consensus on the science which explains changes to the planetary climate system in… Read more »

Africa: Panel Calls for Ten-Fold Boost in Power for Africa

Africa can boost its capacity to generate power - and, as a result, economic growth and jobs - without precipitating catastrophic climate change, argues Kofi Annan. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Leaders Must Take 'Decisive Action' to Generate Clean Energy - Kofi Annan

Some African countries are already leading the world in low-carbon, climate-resilient development, says Kofi Annan, in the annual report of the Africa Progress Panel. Read more »

Africa: Climate-Smart Agriculture Needed to Address Undernutrition

Much has been said about the challenges that humankind faces as the climate shifts. It is time to talk about the opportunities. Read more »

Africa: Agriculture Needs to Get Smart - Climate Smart

We've heard from African leaders like Kofi Annan and Nigeria's Agriculture Minister Akin Adesina about the potential for agriculture to create jobs and transform livelihoods. A key… Read more »

Africa: African Awakening Will Avert Future Food Crises

Thirty years on from a famine that claimed more than a million lives, Ethiopia is making great strides towards food security. And though progress across the continent is uneven,… Read more »

Africa: Mayors Seek Bigger Role In Climate Change

Some of Africa's biggest cities are joining an international drive by city governments to respond to global climate change. Read more »

Africa: Championing a Development Agenda Beyond 2015

Molly Elgin-Cossart, senior fellow at the New York University Center on International Cooperation, reflects on lessons learned from the United Nations High-Level Panel on the… Read more »

Africa: Feeding Africa Through Agricultural Innovation

After the agriculture heyday of 30 years ago, the sector got scant attention, especially from African presidents whose nations were well endowed with natural resources, like… Read more »

East Africa: Farmers Adapting but Food Insecurity Persists, Researcher Says

About a year after East Africa's worst drought in six decades peaked, a survey of more than 700 smallholder farmers across four regional countries reveals that food insecurity… Read more »

South Africa: Cities Often Hinder Food Security, Say Experts

Rising food prices, changes in climatic conditions and the growing number of people without enough nutritious food featured at the top of the agenda at a session on food security… Read more »

Africa: African Govts Urged to Support Unhindered Reporting on Global Warming

Ahead of the Rio+20 conference in Brazil next week, African journalists have called on governments to allow them to report independently on issues related to global warming. Read more »

Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip… Read more »

North Africa: The Forgotten Uprising - Climate Change & North Africa

The North African States are located in an arid region with a Saharan climate to the South and a Mediterranean climate to the North, typified as one of the world’s most… Read more »

Africa: Addressing Climate Change as a Human Rights Issue

Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the promise of sustainable development will be revisited again at the 2012 Rio+20 United Nations Conference on… Read more »

Kenya: Livestock Insurance - A Chance to Outsmart Drought?

The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Read more »

Uganda: Money in the Dirt

Soft spoken Kika is a 25 year old from Kampala, Uganda. I met him on a road trip from Nairobi to Durban with the We have Faith Caravan with over 130 youth from all over the world.… Read more »