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Matobo, Zimbabwe, May 2024: southern Africa’s drought has devastated crops and pastures, leading to displacement. Zinyange Auntony/AFP/Getty Images

Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: new policies are needed to keep the peace

Climate change disrupts community stability, especially when it leads to food shortages and displacement. Governments must work with communities to set up policies to prevent this.
African countries must urgently green their buildings if they want to cool their cities down. This building in Hamburg, Germany opened in July 2024 with 23,000 trees and shrubs planted in every available space. Ulrich Perrey/Picture Alliance/Getty Images

Urban greening in Africa will help to build climate resilience – planners and governments need to work with nature

With the climate heating up rapidly, African cities must green every space to cool down and absorb more rain water, minimising floods. Nature-based solutions can make a huge difference.
The 2016 El Niño drought in Malawi dried out maize fields, leaving only weeds. It caused a famine that left over 60 million people in Southern Africa dependent on food aid. Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images

El Niño: Malawi’s harvest of its staple food maize may fall by 22.5% this year

Food security experts recommend that rural farmers in Malawi be given access to irrigation systems to free them from reliance on rain, and find ways outside farming to earn an income.
Farmer-herder conflicts in some parts of the continent are in part driven by environmental degradation. Luis Tato via Getty Images

Climate may not directly drive conflict but it’s critical for building peace

Under certain conditions, climate can amplify security risks, with implications for lasting peace.
Public participation has been found to increase voluntary cash contributions for the construction of schools in Ugandan sub-counties. Photo by: Wayne Hutchinson/Farm Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Does bottom-up monitoring improve public services? What we found in Uganda

Public participation increased the quality and quantity of some public services, though not in all sectors, and some services were affected more than others.
Grootvlei, Snake Park, an impoverished suburb on the fringe of one of the biggest mine dumps in Soweto, Johannesburg. Poor people have been hit hardest by the fallout of COVID-19. Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

Who has been hit hardest by South Africa’s lockdown? We found some answers

The net effect is that the shocks are most severe on poorer, more vulnerable households.
COVID-19 mitigation could open new opportunities for agroecological innovation, here a multifunctional landscape in Ethiopia. Michael Hauser (ICRISAT)

COVID-19 recovery is a chance to improve the African food system

It’s time to redesign food systems that deliver healthy foods, allow farming families to make a good living, and support thriving societies.
Di bawah terik matahari dan turunnya hujan, ikan yang merupakan komoditi pangan yang mudah rusak, harus melalui jarak yang jauh untuk mencapai titik penjualan. www.shutterstock.com

Manajemen perikanan yang buruk rugikan Indonesia Rp 104 triliun per tahun. Berikut cara mengatasinya

Mengatur dan mengawasi jumlah ikan yang terbuang dan hilang bukanlah perkara mudah. Namun, kerja keras ini setimpal demi menghemat Rp 104 triliun setiap tahunnya untuk kesejahteraan seluruh rakyat Indonesia.

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