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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Index insurance and climate risk: prospects for development and disaster management
This publication examines the use of index insurance to help reduce vulnerability and poverty and adapt to climate change. Experience in index insurance to-date has been limited to individual case studies, which show promise of lessening the impacts of climate shocks, and enabling investment and growth in the agriculture sector.
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Zimbabwe Faces Continuing Cholera Threat: Red Cross
Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday.
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Hunger, malnutrition: the global scenario (Editorial)
A report, prepared and released by the United Nation
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Birds More At Risk; World Failing In Conservation
The list of birds threatened with extinction has grown fractionally; a new sign that governments are failing to meet a 2010 global conservation goal, an annual review of birds showed on Thursday.
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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
Effective planning for climate change adaptation programming in developing countries requires a finegrained assessment of local vulnerabilities, practices and adaptation options and preferences.
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Assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate risks: methods for investigation at local and national levels
Effective planning for climate change adaptation programming in developing countries requires a finegrained assessment of local vulnerabilities, practices and adaptation options and preferences.
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9 billion people by 2050
The world's population will hit seven billion early in 2012 and top nine billion in 2050, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the developing countries of Asia and Africa, according to a new UN estimate, The Associated Press reported from the United Nations, New York.
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Going to scale with community-led total sanitation: reflections on experience, issues and ways forward
Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is widely and correctly recognised as a revolutionary participatory approach to rural sanitation. It is timely and the purpose of this paper is to review experience gained as it has spread, and to explore options and ways forward for the future.
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Ethiopia's Gibe 3 dam endangers Kenyas Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana is a miraculous anomaly of life-giving water in a parched and unforgiving land. Formed millions of years ago in the tectonic upheavals that created East Africa
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New directions for integrating environment and development in East Africa
This paper synthesizes the findings of a study carried out by Ecoagriculture Partners and the International Institute for Environment and Development on behalf of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to explore opportunities for sustainable development in East Africa.