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TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature By Denis Gathanju DAR-ES-SALAAM - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. MORE >>
MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case. MORE >>
MALAWI: Climate Change Is Changing Farming Methods By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - As they slept soundly on the night of Feb. 28, a family of four was killed when their house collapsed over their heads in Malawi’s southern district of Chikhwawa. MORE >>
MALAWI: Extra Money Allocated for Drought Relief By Charles Mpaka BLANTYRE - Maize farmer Anita Yunus has lived near the Mulanje Mountain in southern Malawi for over 30 years. And she does not remember there ever being a drought in the area. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'Perhaps We Should Just Sign' Analysis by Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - Countries are quietly signing up to the Copenhagen Accord, but commitments on emissions cuts and funding remain unclear. MORE >>
CLIMATE CHANGE: Much Work Lies Ahead for Africa By Ann Hellman CAPE TOWN - Africa needs urgent action on global warming. The consensus position adopted by African leaders ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen failed. African environmental activists are now debating their way forward. MORE >>
BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse By Stephen Leahy* VICTORIA, Seychelles - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean. MORE >>
ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away By IPS Correspondents ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands By Stephen Leahy VICTORIA, Seychelles - Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a country's 'green jewels', even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops. MORE >>
KENYA: Plastic Bags: Convenience Costing the Earth By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - When Nairobi was founded in 1899, it took its name from what the Maasai called the place: Ewassi Nyirobi, "cool waters." A century later, the river has something stuck in its throat: millions of plastic bags threaten to choke it. MORE >>
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