UN Agencies Pledge to Fight Africa’s Food Insecurity Issues
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and three Rome-based UN agencies have reiterated their commitment to...
Climate smart crops: A necessity for future food and nutrition security
Climate change is taking a severe toll on farmers, as they watch their livelihoods disappear with the onslaught of floods, droughts and...
Safe Piped Water Remains a Luxury Across Africa
MWENEZI; Zimbabwe (IDN) - Raviro Chawuruka scoops out sand from a well on a stream bank closer to her rural home in Rutenga, 443 km west...
Growing cities: more chances, more insecurities
Cities in Asia and Africa are growing at a very fast pace, and societies change. That brings many opportunities to those moving to the...
The Sierra Leone School Green Club – a new dawn for environmental awareness in Sierra Leone
The Sierra Leone School Green Club (SLSGC) is an indigenous Community Based Organization, established in 2015. The organization is...
Solar grid keeps harvests high, hospitals lit in parched rural Zimbabwe
MASHABA, Zimbabwe, Sept 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Until recently, farmers in this town in southern Zimbabwe struggled to water...
New crops, livestock less vulnerable to climate change to be developed
Islamabad :The climate change ministry would obtain input from the relevant experts belonging to both the public and private sectors to...
Third of Earth's soil is acutely degraded due to agriculture
A third of the planet’s land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tonnes a year, according to a new...
Coffee, Bees and Climate Change Are Linked In Ways You May Not Have Expected
Pollinators such as bees play a key part of producing the beans that go into your morning cup of coffee. In fact, they are responsible...
Cold region 'tipping point' now inevitable
The decline of cold regions called periglacial zones is now inevitable due to climate change, researchers say. Periglacial zones, where...