The report on the status of elephants and ivory trade released yesterday by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species said there has been a steady decline in poaching levels since

NBI Executive Director Engineer Innocent Ntabana, said here yesterday the crisis in the river that flows northward through Lake Victoria in Tanzania and drains into the Mediterranean Sea is likely

Addis Ababa — Index insurance is being promoted as a solution to protect climate affected smallholder farmers in Africa.

The World Health Organization has said it is working to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) that has appeared in eastern Uganda on the border with Kenya.

The commission of inquiry on land yesterday tasked the National Forestry Authority (NFA) and National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) to explain the circumstances under which a hostel and t

Coffee represents a multi-hundred-billion dollar industry, consumed almost entirely by industrialized nations while being cultivated, harvested and exported by the world's poorer nations.

The flood of people fleeing South Sudan, coupled with delays and constraints on funding, has lead to food rations to refugees being slashed by half.

In Africa, the African Union is committed to addressing climate change issues with a gender perspective.

Scientists at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) have designed a forest observatory database that gives information on activities that contributes to the destructi

All major agencies intervening in community-based and carbon forestry – such as international development agencies, conservation institutions, and national governments – state that their interventions must engage local participation in decision making. All say they aim to represent local people in the design and implementation of their interventions. In practice, decision-making processes are rarely 'free', barely 'prior' poorly 'informative' and seldom seek any form of democratic 'consent' or even 'consultation'.

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