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
Ethiopia
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Bangladesh among 5 most vulnerable nations: report
Bangladesh is among five most vulnerable countries to climate change-induced food crisis and hunger, says a report. It says the 10 countries that rank most vulnerable are DRC, Burundi, South Africa,
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Egypt, Ethiopia To Review Impact Of Mega Dam
Egypt and Ethiopia have agreed to set up a technical team to review the impact of a $4.8-billion Nile river dam which Addis Ababa announced in March, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in Cairo
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Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations’ warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across Somalia and tens of thousands of people
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Some like it hot: The influence and implications of climate change on coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) and coffee production in East Africa
<p>The negative effects of climate change are already evident for many of the 25 million coffee farmers across the tropics and the 90 billion dollar (US) coffee industry. The coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus
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Ethiopia Says Plans To Build More Nile Dams
Ethiopia has announced plans to construct two dams along its share of the Nile, six months after embarking on a 5,250 MW power plant that rankled Egypt over concerns it might affect the flow of the river.
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Small farmers, big change: scaling up impact in smallholder agriculture
To maximize the potential of agricultural scale up, NGOs need to act as facilitators of multi-stakeholder processes that establish new types of farmer organizations, alliances to influence policy and investment,
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African donors pledge $351 million for drought crisis
African countries and donors pledged more than $350 million Thursday at a fund-raiser in the Ethiopian capital to help millions facing starvation in the Horn of Africa's worst drought in decades. The African
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Somalia famine set to spread to two new areas: UN
Famine is set to spread to two new southern Somali regions with millions of people reeling from extreme drought, the top UN humanitarian aid official for the war-torn nation warned on Wednesday. "We are
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Britain says 400,000 Somali children at risk of death
Britain said on August 17 that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a further
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World Bank Calls Horn Of Africa Famine Manmade
The famine in the Horn of Africa is manmade - the result of artificially high prices for food and civil conflict, the World Bank's lead economist for Kenya Wolfgang Fengler told Reuters Tuesday. "This