Kenyans Gaining after Shifting from Tobacco Farming
2 days ago · Benard Imoh, a farmer in Otubokin in Busia western Kenya bought a bull in 2023 after dropping tobacco farming for the high-yielding beans. Imoh, 56, adds that he had grown tobacco for six years but was unable to count the benefits from it apart from feeding his family. He says that besides buying a bull, he now has a stable income that enables ...
COP29: New Investment Initiatives to Boost Africa’s Private Climate ...
1 day ago · The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimates that developing economies need between $3.3 trillion and $4.5 trillion in annual investment to meet their Sustainable Development Goals. But at current financing levels, it says there is an annual financing gap of some $2.5 trillion. During COP29’s opening on November 11, 2024 ...
Africa: Integration of Bioeconomy Crucial to Achieving Economic ...
2 days ago · By Duncan Mboyah. African countries should integrate bioeconomy in their plans to achieve economic development and environmental sustainability. Eng. Festus Ng’eno, Kenyan Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry said during the launch of the 2024 State of the Bioeconomy in Eastern Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
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4 days ago · Science Africa & SJN engaged the Nation Media Group Editors on solutions journalism. About 20 editors, managers & directors attended the two-hour session delivered by Daniel Otunge of Science Africa & Caroline Karobia of Solutions Journalism Initiative.
COP 29: Boost Adaptation Financing, Developed Countries Urged
5 days ago · By Sharon Atieno. As the world gears up for the 29 th Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP) in Baku, Azerbaijan, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is calling on countries to scale up urgent action against climate change starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing.. According to the organization, global average temperature rise is approaching 1.5°C above pre ...
Global Urban Forum Concludes with Cairo Call to Action
3 days ago · By Sharon Atieno. With around 1.6 billion people worldwide lacking adequate housing, an estimated 15 million people forcibly evicted yearly, and another 150 million living in homelessness, delegates at the twelfth session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12) have adopted the Cairo Call to Action to address this crisis.. With one in seven people globally projected to live in urban areas by 2050 ...
Tuberculosis Resurges as Top Infectious Disease Killer
Nov 5, 2024 · According to the new Global Tuberculosis Report 2024, 1.25 million of those diagnosed, died of TB, meaning that it is once again the leading cause of death from infectious disease after COVID-19 displaced it briefly during the pandemic. “The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage when we have the tools to prevent ...
Kenya: Narok Community Reaping from Water Source, Forest …
Nov 6, 2024 · The Mara-Siana community voluntarily abandoned sand mining and moved out to pave the way for conservation. They are reaping the fruits of these conservation efforts. When the region recently experienced drought and pastoralists were counting losses from livestock deaths, the community had enough water and pasture for their animals.
Africa Union’s Scientific Society Rallies States to Fight Climate ...
Nov 22, 2021 · By Daniel Otunge. As the worlds’ attention turns to the implementation of the Glasgow Agreement reached under the just concluded COP 26, one body established in 2019 by the Africa Union(AU)’s African Scientific Research …
Climate Protection Actions Needed, Africa Warming ... - Science …
Aug 20, 2021 · By Mary Hearty. In the past decade, global warming has been very rapid, and unless large scale global climate protection actions are taken, minimizing it will not be possible.