Tag: climate change
Help Small-Scale Farmers Adapt to Climate Change to Avoid Increased Hunger and Migration
By Abdi Ali Published February 14, 2021 Widespread hunger and global instability is inevitable unless strategies to help small-scale farmers adapt to climate change are put in place and implemented. “It is unacceptable that small-scale farmers who grow much of the world’s food are left at the mercy of unpredictable weather patterns, with such low…
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Why Africa Shouldn’t Phase Out Fossil Fuel
By NJ Ayuk Published July 7, 2020 As African oil and gas countries struggle with COVID-19’s devastating impact on demand, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) seem to be celebrating it. The two groups have in June 2020 described the low oil prices caused by the pandemic…
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Project to Help Ethiopians Adapt to Climate Change Set Up
By Irene Gaitirira Published December 15, 2019 Ethiopians who depend on rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism are set to benefit from a new US$451 million project to increase their resilience to floods, drought and desertification caused by climate change. Ethiopia and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) of the United Nations have signed a US$451 million…
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Impending Hunger Catastrophe Should Be Africa’s Last!
By Irene Gaitirira Published April 17, 2017 More than 18 million people in the Horn of Africa and in Nigeria are facing one of the worst hunger crises in recent history. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) warns that this humanitarian crisis will be repeated again and again unless concerted efforts…
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