September 05, 2012
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 »
August 30, 2012
Africa: Pumps, Policies and Private Investment
As World Water Week draws to a close, a new report highlights the promise of small-scale irrigation schemes. "Water for Wealth and Food Security" touts simple interventions, such… Read more »
August 15, 2012
Africa: Toilet Tales - Health Gains Without Wasting Water, or Excrement
Although there were no African prizewinners this week from a toilet challenge sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African Professor Chris Buckley doesn't… Read more »
June 14, 2012
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 »
May 29, 2012
Africa: Presidents Commit to Nurturing Africa's 'Natural Capital'
Until Africa's forests are valued for the oxygen they produce for the world's ecosystems, they will be worth more when they are dead than alive, said Liberian president Ellen… Read more »
May 15, 2012
Somalia: European Military Launches Air Raid On Pirates
European Union military forces carried out an air raid on what they called "pirate equipment" on the coast of Somalia on Tuesday. Read more »
March 13, 2012
Africa: Aiming for a Predictable Water Supply
As the Sixth World Water Forum is being held in Marseille, France, this week, AllAfrica looks at the lack of predictable water supplies and challenges to building infrastructure to… Read more »
February 23, 2012
Africa: Farmers Shape Global Future Say World Leaders
Expanding the yield of smallscale agriculture is vital – not only to feed those in need, but to ensure global stability and preserve the environment. Read more »
January 24, 2012
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 »
January 20, 2012
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 »
January 14, 2012
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 »
January 09, 2012
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 »
December 13, 2011
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 »
December 12, 2011
Africa: Tea Research Key to a Growing Industry
Pelly Malebe's research on helping plants withstand drought is personal as well as scientific. She grew up in South Africa's drought-prone northern province of Limpopo, where crop… Read more »
December 09, 2011
Africa: Caravan of Hope
Fifteen days, six caravans, six countries ... 160 young people from all over the world gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, to begin the journey of a lifetime. The African Youth Initiative… Read more »
Africa: Covering Climate Change - a Life-changing Experience of Learning for African Journalists
After traveling through Africa to Durban to cover the UN climate change conference, described by many of the African journalists as "life-changing", an exchange between the African… Read more »
Africa: Journalists Defining the Face of Africa in a Time of Climate Change
Crammed into a bus for 17 days, travelling for up to 15 hours at a time, and then finally stopping, only to be pelted by rain or scorched by the sun. This was the reality for five… Read more »
Africa: Experiencing the Climate Change Youth Caravan
This week a group of African media practitioners - young reporters, veteran correspondents and journalists-in-training - got together in the shadow of the COP17 climate… Read more »
Africa: 'How Good is Money When You are Leaving a Devastated World for Your Children?'
allAfrica.com asked young, African environmental activists what they would say to the world leaders negotiating on our behalf inside the Durban International Convention Centre. Read more »
December 08, 2011
Africa: Freedom Songs Sung to a Climate Change Tune
"This land belongs to women, they will never tire!" Chanted in Zulu, this South African freedom song from the anti-apartheid struggle was reworked into a protest song against… Read more »
December 07, 2011
Africa: Marketing the Fight Against Climate Change
Environmental activists have climbed to new heights at COP17. Known for courting arrest by attempting to commandeer oil rigs and whaling ships to highlight their pro-environment… Read more »
Africa: For Africans, Climate Change is a Question of Adaptation
High-level international role-players have arrived for climate talks (COP17) in Durban, South Africa, and are debating the key issues as they try to hammer out an accord. But what… Read more »
December 06, 2011
Africa: Climate Crisis Threatens Health of Young Africans
What's bad for the climate is bad for health. Read more »
Africa: Women Impacted by Climate Change - But Not as Victims
"I remember when we didn't have rainfall and my mother had to pay my school fees, so when there was no yield from crops she had to sell her fridge in order for me to go to school",… Read more »
December 02, 2011
Africa: Putting the Fairness Back in Trade?
"Trade isn't always fair," argues Rob Cameron, CEO of Fairtrade International. "It's the imbalance in trade that makes it necessary for fair trade to exist." Read more »