Africa

More than 41 million people in Southern Africa face food insecurity: trade bloc

An estimated 41 million people are food insecure with 21 million people requiring immediate assistance in Southern Africa, a regional economic bloc said on Wednesday, after a drought ravaged the re

Publication Date:

16/06/2016

Source: Reuters

Tags:

Food Security, Africa, Food Policy, Droughts, El Nino, Food Prices

Energy

Unless investors see light on solar, poor women will still give birth in the dark

High in the Usambara Mountains of northern Tanzania, a woman prepares to give birth in the pitch black. Her family clusters around her.

Publication Date:

16/06/2016

Source: Guardian (UK)

Tags:

Energy, Renewable Energy, Tanzania, Africa, Electricity, Solar Energy, Kerosene

Wildlife

Zambia halts hippo culling after protests by animal rights activists

Zambian wildlife authorities said on Tuesday they had suspended the controlled slaughter of up to 2,000 hippos over the next five years following concerns from animal rights activists who described

Publication Date:

15/06/2016

Source: Planet Ark (Australia)

Tags:

Wildlife, Zambia, Hunting, Africa

Climate Change

Set for success: climate-proofing the Malabo declaration

Launching on 14 June 2016, the Montpellier Panel briefing paper ‘Set for success: Climate-proofing the Malabo declaration’ explores the climate change-related targets set out by the Malabo Declaration, which was adopted in 2014 with the aim to improve nutrition and food security across Africa, and to increase agricultural productivity by 2025 wh

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Agriculture for Impact

Tags:

Climate Change, Agriculture, Extreme Weather Events, Africa, El Nino

Climate Change

Set for success: climate-proofing the Malabo declaration

Launching on 14 June 2016, the Montpellier Panel briefing paper ‘Set for success: Climate-proofing the Malabo declaration’ explores the climate change-related targets set out by the Malabo Declaration, which was adopted in 2014 with the aim to improve nutrition and food security across Africa, and to increase agricultural productivity by 2025 wh

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Agriculture for Impact

Tags:

Climate Change, Agriculture, Extreme Weather Events, Africa, El Nino

Health

Global patterns of zoonotic disease in mammals

As the frequency and prevalence of zoonotic diseases increase worldwide, investigating how mammal host distributions determine patterns of human disease and predicting which regions are at greatest risk for future zoonotic disease emergence are two goals which both require better understanding of the current distributions of zoonotic hosts and pathogens. We review here the existing data about mammalian host species, comparing and contrasting these patterns against global maps of zoonotic hosts from all 27 orders of terrestrial mammals.

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Author(s): Barbara A. Han, Andrew M. Kramer, John M. Drake

Source: Cell

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1-13

Tags:

Animal Diseases, Mammals, Infectious Diseases, Livestock, Wildlife, Global, Ebola Virus Disease (Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever), Africa, Europe, Asia, United States Of America (US)

Fisheries

Fisheries in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa

Small, fast growing wild fish could be crucial allies in the race to end hunger in some of the world's most chronically poor and underfed regions, according to a new FAO report on fisheries in the drylands of sub-Saharan Africa.

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: FAO

Tags:

Fisheries, Fish, Aquaculture, Africa, Reservoirs, Food Security, Nutrition, Climate Change, Inland Fisheries, Lakes

Wildlife

Legal ivory sale drove dramatic increase in elephant poaching, study shows

A huge legal sale of ivory intended to cut elephant poaching instead catastrophically backfired by dramatically increasing elephant deaths, according to new research.

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Guardian (UK)

Tags:

Wildlife, Poaching, Elephant, Trade, Illegal Trade, Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia

Agriculture

Global farmland deals now cover area the size of Finland: campaigners

Global investors have spent more than $90 billion buying agricultural lands the size of Finland in deals criticized by rights groups for displacing small farmers, according to research published on

Publication Date:

14/06/2016

Source: Planet Ark (Australia)

Tags:

Agriculture, Land, Farmers, Global, Poverty, Africa, Asia, Food Security

Agriculture