Category archives for: Environment

Africa: Malaria Experts Join Forces with Novartis to Empower Local Communities to Tackle Malaria in Africa

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, June 26, 2012 — Today, more than 35 countries from across Africa are represented at this year’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) Best Practice Sharing Workshop, entitled ‘Empowering Communities: The Heart of Malaria Control’. Convened by Novartis, this pivotal workshop brings together national and international malaria leaders to discuss key topics and […]

Africa: Kenyan Coffin-Makers Offer a Green Send-Off

He may have had few chances in life, but Moses Sawanga now finds visible fulfillment in making the last thing most people will ever need – and doing so in a green way. World Environment Day on June 5 found Sawanga hammering away at coffins at his makeshift workshop in Huruma, a slum about 7 […]

Africa: Rio+20 – Pursuing the ‘Sustainable Development’ Agenda?

By Moses Shaha   Frederic Courbet/Gates Foundation   What are the prospects for equitable change at the Rio+20 conference? What is Rio+20? More than a hundred heads of state are expected to attend the Rio+20 summit – officially, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – on June 20-22 in Brazil. It will mark the […]

Africa: Planning for Urban Population Surge Will Limit Crises – Experts

By Laurie Goering   Nearly all the expected surge in the world’s population from 7 billion people to 9 billion by 2050 will come in urban areas of Asia and Africa, and planning for it will be crucial to limit the spread of slums and related social and environmental problems, experts say. That many fast-growing […]

Africa: In Corrupt Global Food System, Farmland is the New Gold

By Stephen Leahy, Vanguard Uxbridge — Famine-hollowed farmers watch trucks loaded with grain grown on their ancestral lands heading for the nearest port, destined to fill richer bellies in foreign lands. This scene has become all too common since the 2008 food crisis. Food prices are even higher now in many countries, sparking another cycle […]

Africa: Saudi Agriculture Minister Enticed by African Land

By Adam Robert Green Vanguard Dr. Fahd bin Abdulrahman Balghunaim, minister for agriculture for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, speaks to This is Africa about the government’s strategy in Africa. Saudi Arabia’s oil keeps the world turning, but the Kingdom is thirsty for water. For years, the government subsidized domestic food production to feed its […]

Africa: Land Grabs Leave Africa Facing ‘Hydrological Suicide’ – Report

By Emma Batha, Vanguard   A scramble for cheap African farmland by foreign investors threatens to leave millions of people without water and could ultimately drain the continent’s rivers, a report warns. “If these land grabs are allowed to continue, Africa is heading for a hydrological suicide,” said the report’s co-author Henk Hobbelink, coordinator of […]

Mozambique: Selling Ethanol Stoves to Generate Carbon Credits

By Jinty Jackson Maptuo — Along a dirt road in Mozambique’s Sofala province, a long line of men on bicycles stretches into the distance, each carrying an impossibly big bag of charcoal strapped to his bike. The journey to town takes two days from where they or their families cut down trees and put logs […]

Kenya: Water Monitoring System Aids Kenyan Herders

By Geoffrey Kamadi Nairobi — Satellite technology is coming to the aid of pastoralists in drought-stricken Kenya, with the expansion of a water monitoring system that aims to reduce livestock loss. The Livestock Early Warning System combines information uploaded by villagers with satellite data to create a virtually real-time map of forage and water conditions. […]

Angola: Investigation Shows More Fish in Sea

Luanda — Preliminary results of a fishing investigation held in March, on the Angolan sea, show that there is more fish than in the previous year, a source with the sector has announced. This was said by the technical director of the National Institute of Fishing Investigation (Inip), Filomena Vaz Coelho. She announced it during […]

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