Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
Africa
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Pygmies speak up
Bitterness is the only emotion the
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Another distress call
Drought-struck Djibouti, on Africa's eastern coast, is experiencing severe food and water shortage. The country's local economy is almost entirely dependent on livestock rearing but the recent
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Championing charcoal
Over wood as cooking fuel
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Fish medicine
From a common herb
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TRIPPED
On December 26, 2004, the Union government of India issued the Patents Amendments Ordinance, which will change the way the country does business on protecting the intellectual property rights of pharma companies, amongst others. Now, the ordinance is be
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Earth s lung to be revived
Africa's massive rainforests, second only to the one in Amazon basin, have received a new lease of life. Leaders of seven central African countries recently signed a treaty to protect these forests,
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The role of technology management in the dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions from household energy use in Sub-Saharan Africa
The authors analyzed the dynamics of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from household fuel use in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2050. The scenarios included a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, in which fuel consumption and tree-harvesting practices change little except through population growth and urbanization, and large-scale shifts to charcoal- and petroleum-based fossil fuels.
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Hype buster
Consumer Journalism
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AIDS: dangers other than virus
Calling the matter criminal neglect is a gross understatement. The National Institutes of Health (nih), the us government's premier health research agency, has been accused of risking the lives
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Now for book aid
Aids