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Is aid without climate adaptation a waste of time?
Tom Levitt
29th January, 2010
Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Tom Levitt reports more...
Warmer temperatures spreading malaria in Africa
Ecologist
4th January, 2010
Millions more exposed as disease moves into higher altitude areas in Kenya and Tanzania more...
Who needs Africa's land more: us or wildlife?
Thembi Mutch
29th December, 2009
An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever more...
Atlantic Rising: Why Sierra Leone will be screwed at COP15
Will Lorimer
10th December, 2009
The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries more...
Climate change linked to civil war in Africa
Ecologist
25th November, 2009
Higher temperatures cause declines in crop yields and 'economic welfare' which increases the risk of conflict more...
Atlantic Rising: energy-efficient cooking in Guinea Bissau
Tim Bromfield
23rd November, 2009
Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel more...
Gathuru Mburu: Kenya has already had a Green Revolution
Laura Sevier
23rd November, 2009
Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty more...
Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment
Nicola Graydon
1st March, 2005
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda more...
The 300-350 Show: Africa makes a stand
Phil England
10th November, 2009
Climate Radio reports on how and why the African delegation threatened to walk out of the recent climate negotiations more...
Solar power from Sahara a step closer
Ashley Seager
2nd November, 2009
The German-led Desertec initiative believes it can deliver power to Europe as early as 2015 more...
Atlantic Rising: when the sea swallowed a school
Tim Bromfield
19th October, 2009
The team discovers that, even in the midst of marine beauty, the ever rising tides exact a terrible price more...
Atlantic Rising: Senegal's crumbling coast
Lynn Morris
14th October, 2009
When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland? more...
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Africa doesn't need a green revolution. It needs agroecology
Dan Taylor
23rd September, 2009
Green Revolution architect Norman Borlaug is credited with 'feeding India'. But the feat took more than hybrid varieties and fertiliser, and it will take a much more sophisticated approach to help Africa feed itself more...
Local electricity: Africa goes off-grid
Tom Levitt
29th July, 2009
Giant wind farms may grab the headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on Africans and carbon emissions more...
Kenya to build Africa's biggest windfarm
Xan Rice
28th July, 2009
With surging demand for power and blackouts common across the continent, Africa is looking to solar, wind and geothermal technologies to meet its energy needs more...
Extent of agricultural land-grab revealed on new website
Eifion Rees
22nd June, 2009
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic more...
The Challenge for Africa - A New Vision
Will Bugler
19th June, 2009
This book by Wangari Maathai is a manifesto for change whose message is as vital for aid agencies and governments as it is for a woman farming a Kenyan hillside more...
Overfishing sends Cape gannet ecosystem haywire
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Cape gannet chicks are facing starvation as a result of overfishing of sardines and anchovies off the coast of southern Africa, as well as an increase in predation by other species affected by the food shortage more...
Dams: development or control?
Khadija Sharife
1st June, 2009
The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.more...
Grant aims to streamline GM crop technology into Africa
Ecologist
1st March, 2009
A charity has given millions to a biotechnology organisation in an aim to advance the use of biotechnology on crops in developing countries. more...
Poison Fire
Phil Moore
4th September, 2008
Environmentalists arrested at community meeting on gas flaring more...More Than Honey
Kate Atkins
1st May, 2003
They build masterfully constructed homes, have a brilliantly regulated social order, are essential to sustaining the environment and are playing a vital role in sustainable development projects. more...
Economics Senegal
Heiner Thiessen
1st November, 2002
You can ‘structurally adjust’ an economy in a matter of years, but it takes longer to destroy a culture. Heiner Thiessen reports from Senegal on the impact of imposing a Western cash economy on a traditional African barter societymore...
Pirate politics
Kate Eshelby
1st February 2007
Overfishing along West Africa’s coast is endangering fish stocks and livelihoods, but local fishermen are not to blame. more...Members
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