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Retaining a network of wildlife conservation areas is vital in helping to save up to 90 per cent of bird species in Africa affected by climate change, according to scientists.
The research team – led by Durham University – including BirdLife International and the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) looked at the effects of climate [...]
illage communities in Western Kenya alongside ones in Niger, Nigeria and China could become the key to unlocking the multi-billion dollar carbon markets for millions of farmers, foresters and conservationists across the developing world.
Catchments in and around Lake Victoria have been chosen as a test-bed for calculating how much carbon can be stored in [...]
Access to mobiles phones has transformed the lives of rural women farmers boosting income and expanding knowledge, a pilot study in Lesotho has found.
Three years ago, Evodia Matobo, then 62, a small-scale poultry farmer in Lesotho’s rural lowlands, was stacking plastic containers to feed her chickens. Now she talks about “feeders, agricultural shows, workshops, [...]
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Things were certainly looking up when I last visited Busia, a small city in Kenya, in mid-2007. Busia, home to about 60,000 residents, spans Kenya’s western border with Uganda: half the town sits [...]
Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify underground water resources in the drought-prone country.
Due to the rainfall variability in time and in space, during recent years the rain-fed agriculture struggles to meet the requirements of food [...]
By Mary Kimani, for United Nations Africa Renewal magazine
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The small, dusty village of Mayange lies 20 kilometres from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Its health centre has fewer than 40 beds but serves an estimated 35,000 people. In most ways, the Mayange centre is like thousands of other health facilities across the continent which struggle [...]
Africa is the fastest growing market for mobile telephone. It has also been shown that growth on new subscribers is biggest in the developing world.
Studies by the International Telecommunications Union indicate that of the world’s mobile subscribers only 33% were in the developed world with the remaining 67% in the developing world at the end of 2006.
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Standing in the midst of a freshly planted maize field, Bright Osei Kwaku recalls that last year he more than doubled his output with the help of improved seeds, fertilizer and advice on farming techniques. Altogether, [...]
Sierra Leone has made key improvements in regulatory reforms that make it easier to do business, according to Doing Business 2009, Raging Bull movies
the sixth in an annual series of reports published by IFC and the World Bank.
Ghana’s position as a trade and investment hub in West Africa was greatly strengthened Thursday with the unveiling by Vice President Alhaji Alui Mahama and visiting World Bank President Robert Zoellick of a new refrigerated terminal for fruit and vegetable exports at the port of Tema.
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