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Renewing African agriculture
20 May 2009, source: ScienceAlert URL: http://www.sciencealert.com.au/opinions/20092005-19170.html
As 2008 draws to a close, I and other colleagues of mine in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, which supports my Africa-based institute, the International Livestock Research Institute, have been reflecting on a 'New Deal' for African farmers, who face special agricultural conditions that demand special attention... Read more...
Bridging the climate change gap
19 May 2009, source: Foreign Policy in Focus URL: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6124
New York: Since his inauguration in January, President Barack Obama has promised to take the problem of climate change seriously and step into a leadership role in the global negotiations. Congressional leadership on climate has also swelled to deliver domestic climate change legislation. But a "blind spot" seems to be emerging that may make it more difficult for the United States to play the leadership role it wishes — and the world needs it — to play... Read more...
Top experts address Commonwealth Health ministers meeting
19 May 2009, source: Commonwealth Secretariat URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200905180589.html
London: Climate change and lack of access to clean energy, especially for the world's poorest people are among the greatest challenges for public health, Prof Sir Andy Haines, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said yesterday. Prof Haines, the keynote speaker at the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland said that solutions to tackling them do exist, but that they required political will to implement them... Read more...
Global Fund may help
19 May 2009, source: stuff.co.nz
Auckland: A $13 million fund to propel the climate-change debate into the global mainstream could kickstart a New Zealand campaign. Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan will launch the "tck tck tck" campaign, under umbrella group Global Campaign for Climate Action in Geneva on June 25... Read more...
Two million Ghanaians prone to food insecurity
19 May 2009, source: The Mail URL: http://accra-mail.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view;=article&id;=769:two-million-ghanaians-prone-to-food-insecurity&catid;=1:latest-news
Accra: About two million Ghanaians are at risk of becoming food insecure during lean seasons or at the onset of a shock, natural or man-made disaster. Another 1.2 million people are food insecure with limited access to sufficient and nutritious food throughout the year, according to a Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) report... Read more...
Partnership to boost media coverage of climatic change
19 May 2009, source: UGPulse.com URL: http://www.ugpulse.com/articles/daily/news.asp?about=Partnership+to+boost+media+coverage+of+climatic+change++&ID;=10288
Kampala: The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) has opened its 2009 Fellowship Programme in which it encourages journalists in developing countries like Uganda who report on climate change to apply. The programme comes during a critical year of negotiations that ends in December with the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen where a new global deal could be struck... Read more...
Farming's big carbon hassle: Kyoto Article 3.4
19 May 2009, source: North Queensland Register URL: http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/general/farmings-big-carbon-hassle-kyoto-article-34/1514250.aspx
Townsville: Australia currently can’t account for soil carbon its farms might sequester, but nor does it have to account for soil carbon lost to drought. Why? Article 3.4. When it signed the Kyoto Protocol in 2008, Australia chose not to commit to Article 3.4, which covers management of crop and grazing land, revegetation and forest management... Read more...
Johannesburg: More floods should be expected in Botswana, the Red Cross has warned. Almost 4,000 people were displaced in March 2009 by some of the worst flooding ever seen in the northwest, prompting criticism of the country's early warning system. Most of the displaced are still sheltering in 10 emergency camps around the country, while the swollen Okavango River - the region's fourth largest waterway – has shown little signs of abating, said Tummie Teseletso, a spokeswoman for Botswana Red Cross... Read more...
Climate change: from awareness to adaptation
18 May 2009, source: ThisDay URL: http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=143622
Lagos: Year 2007 was worse and more terrible for farmers, nomads and pastoralists in Kebbi and Gombe States than previous years. Communities, farmers and state governments were caught unawares when heaven let loose in the second and third quarters of 2007. And consequently, rivers, lakes and dams overflew their banks, and massive flood swept off homes, communities and public institutions... Read more...
Full speed in the wrong direction
18 May 2009, source: Pambazuka News URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200905150056.html
CSD-17 presents a unique opportunity for global governance to rise above the selfish interests of individual countries and regional blocks to work towards sustainable development worldwide, writes Nnimmo Bassey. But, he warns, a complicated negotiation text lacking in ideas to galvanise nations into acting in solidarity, is likely to maintain the status quo... Read more...
Climate change is a challenge and an opportunity
18 May 2009, source: The Guardian URL: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial_opinion/article03/indexn2_html?pdate=180509&ptitle;=Climate%20change%20is%20a%20challenge%20and%20an%20opportunity
Lagos: Climate change is here, it is real and it has to be urgently dealt with. African and European institutions should work together to take advantage of the existing and emerging opportunities to counter the threat posed by this global public danger. There is a fundamental unfairness implicit in climate change... Read more...
Bridging the climate change gap
18 May 2009, source: Foreign Policy in URL: http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6124
New York: Since his inauguration in January, President Barack Obama has promised to take the problem of climate change seriously and step into a leadership role in the global negotiations. Congressional leadership on climate has also swelled to deliver domestic climate change legislation. But a "blind spot" seems to be emerging that may make it more difficult for the United States to play the leadership role it wishes — and the world needs it — to play... Read more...
Urgent agricultural reform vital to avert looming African food crisis � UN report
New York: With Africa’s population set to rise by an additional one billion people over the next four decades, the continent risks being plunged into a deepening food crisis without urgent changes to the management of its natural resources, warned a new United Nations report. Agricultural yields in Africa have already fallen in some cases by up to 50 per cent as a result of invasive pests, land degradation, erosion, drought and climate change, according to the report, released today by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)... Read more...
Turning agriculture into a business
15 May 2009, source: Reuters AlertNet URL: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/652c99c970abce91630d038020466d72.htm
Copenhagen: A plan by the Africa Commission to side-step African governments and target the private sector to invigorate the continent's business and agricultural capacity, thereby stimulating job creation, was launched in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on 6 May. According to the Commission's committee members - heads of state, members of civil society, academia and international and regional organisations, mainly from Africa - the proposals break from the ever-growing catalogue of help schemes for the world's poorest continent... Read more...
The impact of groundwater in Africa
15 May 2009, source: American Chronicle URL: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/102277
Nasirobi: Groundwater, the water that flows through soil and rock beneath our feet, is the primary source of water supply to half a billion people in Africa and over 80% of Uganda´s population, according to observations made a while back by leading water experts from Uganda and others from across the world... Read more...
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