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
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Weather forecasts help Ethiopian herders, farmers fight climate extremes
A rmed with a spear and undeterred by the intense sunlight, Tarekegn Kareto meticulously plucks weeds in his maize field in Argoba village, in southern Ethiopia. "With both dry weather and unusually
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Madagascar: World Bank commits $5 million as fears mount over plague spread
The World Bank says $5 million in emergency funding will help Madagascar finance the response to the island nation’s plague outbreak, as the death toll has reached at least 127 victims there – and threatens
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African Leaders Part of Global Response to Malnutrition Crisis as Over $3.4 Billion is Committed at Global Nutrition Summit 2017
Milan — African leaders gathered at a summit to address the global crisis of malnutrition helped to galvanise US3.4bn including US$640 million in new commitments, organisers said today. The Global Nutrition
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Uprooted by climate change: responding to the growing risk of displacement
Climate change is already forcing people from their land and homes, and putting many more at risk of displacement in the future. Supercharged storms, more intense droughts, rising seas and other impacts
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Estimates of the burden of Group B Streptococcal disease worldwide for pregnant women, stillbirths, and children
<p>The researchers aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal infection/stillbirth,
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Potential of agroforestry for food and nutrition security of small-scale farming households: a case study from Yayu, southwestern Ethiopia
Food and nutrition security is a major global challenge. Enhancing the local production of food is a key alternative in impoverished agrarian countries of the south. One option is agroforestry, promoted
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Nile Basin countries seek cooperation to manage water resource
KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) -- A Nile Basin countries forum kicked off in Rwanda’s capital city Kigali highlighting cooperation in the use of Nile Basin waters. Different and conflicting needs of upstream
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Plans underway to rescue River Nile from threat
NBI Executive Director Engineer Innocent Ntabana, said here yesterday the crisis in the river that flows northward through Lake Victoria in Tanzania and drains into the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be
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As scientists ponder “hacking the climate,” poor countries are wary
As a child during Ethiopia’s deadly famine of 1984, Asfawossen Kassaye remembers watching people from the countryside flock to his town, desperately looking for food after a drought devastated their fields.
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Refugees – and forests – benefit as Kenya's herders torch an invader
Turkana County is one of Kenya's most arid regions, but land near the town of Kakuma sports a dense thicket of thorny trees. That's not good news. The plant is Prosopis juliflora, a fast-growing invasive