By PETER ORENGO: The Standard The Meteorological Department has predicted depressed and poorly distributed rainfall over most parts of the country during the March-May season. They have advised the country’s agricultural bread-basket counties in Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces, where rainfall maybe near-normal, to take advantage of the rains and maximise crop yield through [...]
By: allfrica.com Kigali — Drought is likely to return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of Africa over the next three months, say regional climate scientists meeting in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. The forecast comes just weeks after the UN declared the Somali “famine” over. “There is a high probability of drought returning [...]
As the world prepares to discuss climate change in South Africa next week, activists and researchers are pointing to a region that has been among the most affected in recent years – the Niger River basin in West Africa. In addition to identifying the region’s problems, there has been an effort to find solutions to [...]
Climate change will increase the vulnerability of children in South Africa, according to a new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). With the UN’s climate-change summit in Durban (COP-17) barely a week away, Unicef’s study, which was released on Saturday, calls on policy makers to focus on children in addressing climate change. South [...]
The world must start adapting now to a very different, much hotter tomorrow, one in which business as usual policies and practices will simply not suffice. The extreme weather events over the past two years provide a foretaste of what is to come. But dealing with more frequent and intense disasters (to use an apt [...]
The Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA) project is an initiative involving poor farmers, Oxfam America, Swiss Re, the Relief Society of Tigray, Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Nyala Insurance, Dedebit and Credit Savings Institution, various agencies of the Ethiopian government, and other partner organizations. Between November 2007 [...]
As climate change drives an increase in the frequency and intensity of natural hazards, the challenges faced by food-insecure communities struggling to improve their lives and livelihoods will also increase. Over 1 billion people are already hungry. Conservative projections indicate that unless there are significant efforts to improve livelihoods, reduce poverty, and build climate resilience, [...]
A defining characteristic of many rainfed tropical agricultural systems is their vulnerability to weather variability. There is now increased attention paid to climate-agriculture links as the world is focused on climate change. This has shown the need for increased understanding of current and future climate and the links to agricultural investment decisions, particularly farmers’ decisions, [...]
By Jaco Maritz, How We Made It In Africa Farmers in northern Ethiopia are struggling under the impact of climate change. Until a few years ago farmers in this hot and dry area could at least count on the occasional moderate rain. These days there is either no rainfall or it is in the form [...]
By Elita Chikwati, The Herald 11 May 2011 Chiredzi — Low rainfall during the last half of the farming season shattered hopes for most cotton farmers in the Lowveld. The crop was also severely affected by a long dry spell that hit the province and the yield is projected to fall by nearly 50 percent [...]
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