Energy

Kenya's Kengen To Raise $12 Billion For New Plants

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said on Monday it planned to raise $12 billion to build six geothermal power plants that should generate 585 megawatts by 2016, as it pushes to diversi

Publication Date: 
21/02/2012
Beatrice Gachenge
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Kenya, Power Industry, Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Africa, Hydroelectricity, Dams, Wind Energy, Electricity
Fisheries

To fish or not to fish: Factors at multiple scales affecting artisanal fishers' readiness to exit a declining fishery

Globally, fisheries are challenged by the combined impacts of overfishing, degradation of ecosystems and impacts of climate change, while fisheries livelihoods are further pressured by conservation policy imperatives. Fishers' adaptive responses to these pressures, such as exiting from a fishery to pursue alternative livelihoods, determine their own vulnerability, as well as the potential for reducing fishing effort and sustaining fisheries.

Publication Date: 
10/02/2012
Tim M. Daw, Joshua E. Cinner, Timothy R. McClanahan & et al
PLoS ONE
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Marine Fisheries, Marine Fisherfolk, Indian Ocean, Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar
Natural Disasters

U.N. Says Somalia Famine Has Ended, but Warns That Crisis Isn’t Over

The United Nations said on Friday that the famine that has killed tens of thousands of people in Somalia this past year has ended, thanks to a bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food deliverie

Publication Date: 
04/02/2012
New York Times (New York)
Tags:
Somalia, Famine, Natural Disasters, Drought, Starvation, Malnutrition, FAO, Livestock, Kenya, Children
Energy

Financing green growth in a resource-constrained world

This report highlights promising examples of successful collaborations already under way, such as India’s National Solar Mission; Kenya’s efforts to design an investment-grade renewable energy strategy; the South Africa Water Partners Network; and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

Publication Date: 
01/02/2012
World Economic Forum
Tags:
Energy, Finance, Energy Policy, Economic Development, India, Solar Energy, Private Sector, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Climate Change, Low Carbon Economy, Public Sector, Agriculture, Water Resources, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania
Climate Change

FAO Tea summit agrees on scope of climate change discussions

The FAO session on Tea has agreed on what discussion on climate change can be taken up for discussions here. The 20th session of the FAO has drawn up scope and the terms of reference of the climate change working group at its meeting on Sunday.

“This will be put forward to the Inter-Governmental Group on Tuesday,” said Kaison Chang, secretary, FAO-IGG, when asked about the progress of negotiations on climate change. Discussions on climate change will now start formally with all the producing and exporting countries, and consumers. Climate change formally made its way into the summit agenda at Mombasa.

Publication Date: 
31/01/2012
R. K. Radhakrishnan
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
FAO, India, Climate Mitigation, China, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Farmers, Tea, Agro-Based Industry, Climate Change
Wildlife

Elephant Population In Tanzania Sanctuaries Drops

The number of elephants in two wildlife sanctuaries in Tanzania has fallen by nearly 42 percent in just three years, a census showed on Tuesday, as poachers increasingly killed the animals for thei

Publication Date: 
04/01/2012
Planet Ark (Australia)
Tags:
Tanzania, Elephant, Wildlife, Sanctuaries, Africa, Kenya, Poaching, Rhinoceros, Asia, Illegal Trade, Pollution, Climate Change, CITES, Zimbabwe, China, Japan, Namibia, Census/ Habitat Monitoring
Energy

IRENA handbook on renewable energy nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) for policy makers and project developers

This Handbook focuses on the role that Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) can play in promoting Renewable Energy (RE) in developing countries.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2012
International Renewable Energy Agency
Tags:
Renewable Energy, Peru, Kenya, Grenada, South Africa, Energy Policy, Finance, Climate Mitigation, Developing Countries, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Kyoto Protocol, Public Sector, Private Sector, Climate Change
Wildlife

Is there room for wildlife as Africa grapples with development?

The reported crash of wildlife populations in the Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya is the most well-publicised example of a crisis that’s unfolding throughout East Africa.

Publication Date: 
02/12/2011
Environment News Network
Tags:
Kenya, Wildlife, Africa, Elephant, Lion, Rhinoceros, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Poaching, Illegal Trade, Nigeria, Brunei, Papua New Guinea
Agriculture

TNAU completes study to promote corporate farming in Guinea

An MoU to this effect will be signed between the parties concerned and the Government of Guinea

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has completed a suitability study in Guinea for promoting corporate farming through its Agro Business Development (ABD) Directorate and an incubatee, Top Worth Group of Companies.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Hindu (Chennai)
Tags:
Coimbatore (D), Guinea, Farmers, Rice, Agro-Based Industry, Crops, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Agriculture
Wildlife

Translocation of jumbos: Report to HC on Dec 5

Despite the High Court’s observations on Karnataka’s plans to translocate elephants from Alur taluk in Hassan district to the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Mysore, Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara s

Publication Date: 
30/11/2011
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Hassan (D), Cauvery SA, Mysore (D), High Court, Western Ghats, People - Animal Conflicts, Elephant, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Endangered Species, Kenya, Wildlife

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