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Climate-friendly farming solution fizzles in Zimbabwe
By Tawanda Majoni Best intentions don’t always translate into best practice, as David Dzama found out to his cost. At first, conservation agriculture seemed like the solution to the climate change-linked…
Because of Climate Change, Education “NOT” Cattle is Insurance for Pastoralists
By Sophie Mbugua/IRIN KALOKUTANYANG/KENYA, 29 June 2017 Livestock is so central to the economy, food, and status of pastoralists in Kenya’s northern drylands that formal education has traditionally taken…
Africa, Developing Nations ‘will’ feel the Trump’s Climate Pullout Heat
By Lou del Bello US President Donald Trump's decision to start the withdrawal process from the Paris Agreement could come at a high price for the developing world, setting back…
Displaced and neglected: Ethiopia’s desperate drought victims
By James Jeffrey Dead camels rot on the outskirts of informal settlements in Ethiopia’s rain-starved Somali region as their owners, once proudly self-sufficient pastoralists, turn to government aid to stay…