Environment
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Poisoned by poachers, Zimbabwe’s vultures face extinction
Feb 14, 2018By Andrew Mambondiyani ZIMBABWE – When park rangers took a routine flight over Gonarezhou National Park, in south-eastern Zimbabwe, last May, they spied a grisly scene. An elephant, deprived by poachers of its tusks, lay dead... -
How Climate-Change Spreads Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Oct 25, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani Antwerp, Belgium– Climate-change is contributing to the spreading and worsening of mosquito-borne diseases, experts have said. Various experts at 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) in Antwerp, Belgium concurred... -
Drought in Kenya: Ensuring Food Security through Diversification and Simple Innovations
Aug 3, 2017Edward (Eddy) Ouko lives in Kisumu County in western Kenya. He is married with four children. When World Neighbors, a small development group based in Oklahoma City, came to his community in 2005 to partner with... -
In Zimbabwe, Rural Women Fight Climate Change with Livelihood Projects
Apr 24, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani MAKONI WEST, ZIMBABWE – Amid the country’s deepening climate change induced poverty, women in rural Makoni district, eastern Zimbabwe are now fully participating in various income-generating projects to fight adverse impacts of... -
Endangered Ecological Communities: The Case of Goi
Apr 23, 2017By Innocent Eteng OGONI, NIGERIA – At the bank of the river in Goi community stood Elias Gbadamosi. Overwhelmed by the filth and the acrid smell oozing from the benzene-filled river, he exclaimed: “I have heard... -
Protecting Zimbabwe’s Prime Forests through REDD+ Initiatives
Feb 15, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani HURUNGWE, Zimbabwe ‒Most rural communities in Zimbabwe still depend entirely on wood as a source of energy, resulting in massive destruction of the country’s prime forests. Tobacco farmers use wood to cure... -
Women cultivate their way out of Zimbabwe’s grinding rural poverty
Jan 31, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani Bernadette Sithole beamed with joy as she picked some vegetables from the local community garden, which had various crops ranging from okra to maize and butternut – a new crop growing in... -
Hand Over: A Sustainable Human-Centred Approach to Solving Egypt Housing Problems
Dec 24, 2016To create a real community development, each segment of the community has something to contribute. That is the principle behind Hand Over, a human-centred award winning social enterprise solving housing deficit in Egypt. Similar to Latin... -
Zimbabwe Advances in Developing Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Education
Dec 19, 2016Review of Chapters in the Draft Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual Underway Harare, Zimbabwe – Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), a new approach to development, can assist Zimbabwe in addressing the challenges of climate change and variability. This is... -
What are the key issues in gender-sensitive climate-smart agriculture?
Nov 30, 2016Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), an approach introduced by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in 2010 to the global agriculture and climate change community, promises to address agricultural productivity, mitigation and adaptation dilemmas...