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Land deals in Africa have led to a wild west - bring on the sheriff, says FAO - 1 views
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Food and Agriculture Organisation chief José Graziano da Silva demands high noon on land grabs that jeopardise food security
From Cairo to the Cape, climate change begins to take hold of Africa - 3 views
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The world's poorest communities have begun to experience extreme weather outside the natural variability of African climate. Without a rapid reduction in emissions, the continent faces calamitous temperature rises within this century
Africa land deals lead to water giveaway | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
Water scarcity in Africa and the Middle East: get the data - 0 views
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To give a better sense of the challenge facing these areas, here is data pulled together and mapped from two sources With a rising global population, increasing water use per capita and depleting reserves of groundwater, there's no doubt that blue gold, as water is sometimes called, is an increasingly precious resource.
Map of Mali's Water Grabbers - National Geographic - 1 views
Mali's Wetlands Drained by Foreign Agribusiness - Water Grabbers - National Geographic - 1 views
ALL MAJOR CASE STUDY FACTS FIGURES (OC AND HS) - 3 views
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Also contains information on HS's content as well :)
Floods hit hundreds of thousands in Chad after heavy August rains | Global development ... - 2 views
Obama's envoy for climate change casts doubt on Kyoto protocol - 0 views
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President Barack Obama's chief climate change negotiator has issued a warning over the future of the Kyoto protocol, casting doubt on a key plank of international climate talks this December in South Africa.
Land grabbers: Africa's hidden revolution - 0 views
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Omot Ochan was sitting in a remnant of forest on an old waterbuck skin and eating maize from a calabash gourd. He was lean and tall, wearing only a pair of combat pants. Behind him was a straw hut, where bare-breasted women and barefoot children cooked fish on an open fire.
Climate change will cost poor countries billions of dollars, studies say - 0 views
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Africa, notoriously, has the worst roads in the world because its extremes of sun and rain bake them dry or leave them cratered and impassable for months at a time. The whole continent, which is physically larger than China, western Europe, India and the US together, still only has 171,000 km of all-weather roads - less than a country like Poland.
La Niña blamed for east African drought - 0 views
Morocco to host first solar farm in €400bn renewables network - 4 views
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The vast solar and windfarm project across North Africa and the Middle East may provide 15% of Europe's electricity by 2050
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