an Eldis Resource
- Climate-smart agriculture for food security in Africa
- Arid Lands Information Network , 2011
- Agriculture in developing countries must change significantly to meet the related challenges of food security and climate change. In Africa, there are numerous proven, low-cost, climate-smart agricult...
- Should Africa take the renewable energy path?
- F. Denton (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2011
- Modern energy services are essential for reducing poverty. Countries need energy to increase economic production, which improves livelihood options for women and men. Energy is also needed to increase...
- The future of pastoralism in a changing climate
- Arid Lands Information Network , 2011
- Pastoralism is a free-range livestock production system. It is practised in all of Africa’s dryland regions, and in some communities it is the main source of food security and income. But will p...
- Women as key players in climate adaptation
- G. Adeniji (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2011
- Gender often dictates who gains and who loses in environmental disasters: where women lack basic rights, more will die from natural disasters than men; where they enjoy equal rights, the death rate is...
- The implications of climate change for health in Africa
- M., J. Chimbari (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010
- The interactions between health and climate change are clearly recognised; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change includes a chapter on health issues in all its publications. But we still need ...
- Forestry and REDD in Africa
- P. Minang (ed);H. Neufeldt (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010
- Over 70 percent of Africa’s population depends on forests: for fuel wood, construction materials, medicine, food, and revenue from forest products. Governments and conservationists recognise Afr...
- Disaster risk and climate change in Africa
- F. B. Olorunfemi (ed) / Arid Lands Information Network , 2010
- Disaster risk and climate change – two of the greatest challenges currently facing humankind – adversely reinforce each other. In the coming decades, climate change is expected to incre...
- Managing Africa’s water in a changing climate
- Arid Lands Information Network , 2009
- Nearly one-third of all water-related disasters occur in Africa. The second issue of Joto Afrika considers the relationship between climate change, the greater incidence of extreme weather events, ...
- Improved access to information on livestock early warning
- G. Kariuki / Arid Lands Information Network , 2006
- Particularly in vulnerable pastoral regions, early warning systems can empower individuals and communities to act to prevent loss of life and reduce the economic and material impact of disasters. In t...
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