World's poor bearing the brunt of global crises, stresses UN rights expert
Impacts of climate change and the global economic crisis are compounding the threats faced by people living in poverty around the world,...
Giving New Life to Degraded Lands in Small Island Developing States
An FAO partnership with Google is helping collect and analyse land degradation data. Speeding up efforts to reverse or prevent land...
Morocco is Still a Climate Change Champion
From September 11-13 the city of Agadir hosted the second annual Climate Chance Summit. It was the largest gathering yet of non-state...
Ethiopia: Forum Eyes Enhanced National Metrology, Hydrology Services
African Ministerial Council on Meteorology (AMCOMET), Africa Hydromet Forum 2017 aims to improve the capability of national hydrology and...
5 must-reads on planetary health
How do you get your mind around a new public-health movement the size of the Earth? The new field of planetary health encompasses the...
Red list: ash trees and antelopes on the brink of extinction
Native ash trees, abundant across North America, are on the brink of extinction as an invasive beetle ravages forests, according to the...
A grain revolution for Africa
Africa never ceases to surprise the world with its existential contradictions. We know about its “resource curse”, the generic term that...
Cameroon: Climate change puts banana production at risk
Although a number of recent studies suggest that migration flows associated with the impact of climate change on agriculture are...
OXFAM, WANEP Caution Farmers On Climate Change
Small scale farmers and other stakeholders of the agriculture sector in Kebbi have been warned on the dangers of climate change as it...
Global hunger rises for first time in decade: U.N. agencies
Global hunger levels have risen for the first time in more than a decade, now affecting 11 percent of the world’s population, as...