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To combat the negative effects of drought, global drought resilience is not a matter of choice but a necessity, this report says. Few if any hazards claim more lives, cause more economic loss and affect more sectors of societies than drought. This is the key takeaway from the report Global Drought Snapshot launched by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in collaboration with…

According to the latest progress report for the Sustainable Development Goals, about 8 per cent of all food produced in the world is lost on the farm, 14 per cent is lost between the farm gate and the retail sec­tor, and 17 per cent is wasted at the retail, food service provider and household levels. What is disturbing here is that these figures haven’t changed significantly in the…

The COP28 climate talks began with a new fund to address the increasingly severe losses and damage vulnerable countries face from climate impacts and concluded with the first international agreement to tackle climate change’s main driver: fossil fuels. Those bookends to the Dubai summit start to tackle the world’s core climate challenges: quickly transforming key systems to…

BULAWAYO, Jan 6 2023 (IPS) - Escalating conflict and climate change threaten the implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), an ambitious land restoration project across Africa. Promoters of the Great Green Wall have called for strong political will in engendering peace and increasing investment in environmental preservation, which the project launched 16 years ago…

Kampala, Oct 5 2022 (IPS) - Thirty-year-old Difasi Amooti Kisembo is one of the demonstrators near the EU delegation offices in Kampala. He and a handful of others have traveled from Uganda’s oil and gas-rich Albertine region’s district to Uganda’s capital Kampala to express their displeasure with an EU Parliament’s resolution against the planned construction of the East African Crude Oil…

By Dr. Suleiman Walhad The region faces multiple challenges, most of them man-made and hence could be handled. Others are natural such as volcanic activities, land formation, geological infrastructures and, in fact, strategic location. Both man-made and natural phenomenon, however, affect peoples’ lives in the region from food security to water availability to economic production in…