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Three villages had to be evacuated due to the blaze, which is the largest to hit the Castilla y León region since 1984. A wildfire continued to burn across the Spanish province of Ávila in the northwestern region of Castilla y León on Wednesday, although it was coming under control. The blaze began on Saturday and was sparked after a car was set alight following an accident on the N-502 highway…

Miguel Wickham analyses the IPCC climate experts' report, which warns of serious consequences for habitability if temperatures continue to rise as a result of human action. The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released, warns of the alarming consequences of increased global warming in the current century. Climate scientists assume…

The United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has trained journalists across Africa to tell stories on land restoration in the Sahel. The two-day virtual training, which ran between August 12 and 13, was themed “Media as agents of change to accelerate land restoration in the Sahel”. The training was facilitated by a team of technical experts from the…

With less rain and water-saving infrastructure lacking, experts warn that the water crisis in Italy costs farmers €1 billion per year.Italy’s desertification crisis began in the southern regions of the country in the last few decades but is now starting to make its way north. According to the most recent estimates by the irrigation consortia association, Anbi, rising temperatures,…

Italia Olivicola warned that the hot and dry summer is already expected to have negative repercussions on the yield of the coming harvest. “There is an urgent need to increase water supply and reduce the effects of climate change,” the national producer association, Italia Olivicola, has warned. The organization said that low rainfall and the scorching heat in recent weeks in…

Is it possible for African farmers to feed Africa? Let’s look at the case study of Mali. In Mali, 85% of the country’s population is engaged in agriculture. We use 15% of the country’s budget on agriculture, which is even more than what is recommended by the African Union (10%). And every year, nearly half of the total remittances sent back from families outside Mali is also…