Climate change heightens Africa's food insecurity worries, calling into question the continent's abilities to provide for its population.
Ethiopia: the enduring food crisis and legal politics of the Nile RiverBy Tadesse Kassa, Doctoral Research Fellow, University of OsloThe enduring state of deprivation and...
I have come across your 'research paper' and read it with concern hoping to learn if there exists legal loopholes to allow Ethiopia applying its 'equitable share' under the nternational law. I was unable to note such an angle. Instead it appears that you dwelt too much on Ethiopia's weakness in its ablility to negotiate and manouver in 1902 todate. HaileSelassie was the main allay of USA and the West since 1942 and yet Ethiopia is still in no positon to develop the Blue Nile basin to feed its people. I am eager to read your final solution to this permament problem in your doctorial thesis. Ethiopia has a problem but what is the possible solution?
allAfrica.com
15 October 2009
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is getting U.S. $15 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support policy innovations and implementation to improve food security. The initiative aims to benefit small farmers, most of whom are women, by helping to improve their yield, boosting both incomes and nutrition.
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The "phony scientists" you describe brought into manifestation the tools and methods that created global warming in the first place. Global warming is a reality; look into it deeply. Don't buy hype. Science isn't "bad;" it can benefit humanity, but it cannot trump Nature. Especially when taken too far, our human "innovations" often prove to have unforeseen consequences. Global warming is one of these consequences. Industrialised nations (especially) burn the refined product of dead animal and plant matter, and the result harms the atmosphere protecting the Earth. Who would have known? Well, we do, now. Yet we continue to burn down our home for the sake of obtaining "things." Most of which are unneeded.
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
22 October 2009
With droughts becoming more common, donors and the Ethiopian government must look beyond the traditional "band aid" responses to disasters by using approaches that are more cost-effective, sustainable and better suited to the population, international aid agency Oxfam says in a new report.
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Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Nairobi)
15 October 2009
New Initiative Announced for World Food Day Recognizes Policy's Pivotal Role in Attaining African Food Security
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Genetic engineering isn't the answer. This solution may fill stomachs, but is, and will be in the future, a cause of disease. Science does not (by "it's" own admission) even understand all of the substances in the common foods we eat; it cannot identify their function in the plant or the role they play in the human body, yet scientists want to modify the genetic structure of a "substance" that they do not even fully understand or perceive in its entirety. This, in a scientific view and otherwise, is extremely problematic.
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (Nairobi)
15 October 2009
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) is working to transform subsistence agriculture practiced by millions of smallholders into a highly productive and sustainable commercial activity, and to end hunger and poverty for millions of Africans. To achieve this goal, Africa urgently needs policies that support smallholder farmers and enable comprehensive change across the agricultural ...
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
15 October 2009
The following is a speech by Bill Gates, co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivered before an audience at the 2009 World Food Prize Symposium held in Des Moines, Iowa. You can watch the speech as it was delivered here.
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Business Daily (Nairobi)
14 October 2009
African countries are digging in with fresh demands to rich nations ahead of UN's climate change talks, opening a new battlefront in the search for a global accord that has eluded the world over the last 10 years.
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If foreign money was going to help Africa, it would have done so by now. A small amount of foreign exchange is a stimulus. A large amount is a sore.
You need to employ African labor to solve your problems. Doing so with foreign money undermines your local economy, devalues your currency, and favors importation of goods and services over local production.
If you want the developed world to cut GHG emissions(and you should), stop selling them oil and gas. Develop these resources slowly, and for your own use and compete among yourselves to be the last nation to run out.
As commented, money given to African nations through aid hasn't done much to alleviate poverty on the continent. However, I agree that western nations should compensate developing nations that are suffering the effect of global warming cause by their economic gains. From my perspective, I believe technology transfer and know-how is more desirable than giving African leaders money. (we all can guess correctly where the money would end up). However, if we're able to secure future technologies that provide easy economic transitions and help develop the continent, capitulating with this provision supports a stronger Africa.
Vanguard (Lagos)
14 October 2009
The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has entered into partnership with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the University of Ife to establish climate observatory centres.
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Business Daily (Nairobi)
14 October 2009
More Kenyans are in need of emergency food today than they were 20 years ago and the situation may get worse, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says in a new report.
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SciDev.Net (London)
13 October 2009
Farmers in Benin are implementing their own research findings to boost the soil fertility and moisture retention of their plots.
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New Vision (Kampala)
21 October 2009
I was happy when I read a story in The New Vision of October 19, quoting the minister of agriculture unveiling the Government commitment of sh2 trillion for agriculture improvement.
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Accra Mail (Accra)
16 October 2009
Mister Bice Osei Kufuor,a Ghanaian musician, has announced that he would soon embark on a tree planting campaign to create awareness on the effects of climate change.
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allAfrica.com
15 October 2009
In advance of World Food Day, marked on 16 October every year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will announce a total of $120 million in grants for agricultural projects. African initiatives will be the major beneficiaries.
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International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, DC)
30 September 2009
Twenty five million more children will be malnourished in 2050 due to effects of climate change, according to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). This study, the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of climate change on agriculture to date, compares the number of malnourished children in 2050 with and without climate change.
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UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
30 September 2009
Wealthy nations are dragging their feet on committing money to help developing countries adapt to climate change, leaving them to face the prospect of footing their own multi-billion dollar bills for their efforts, say delegates and activists at key climate change talks.
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International Food Policy Research Institute (Washington, DC)
30 September 2009
A fact sheet released with the study, "Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation."
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allAfrica.com
30 September 2009
Climate change will increase the number of malnourished children in Africa by 10 million to 52 million in the next 40 years, and the continent needs new agricultural investment of U.S. $2.9 billion a year to offset the adverse effects, says a new report.
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Dr. Namanga Ngongi, a Cameroonian agronomist, is president of the Nairobi-based Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).
Dr. Akin Adesina is vice president for policy and partnerships at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
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