Mobiles boost Africa climate data

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News

The weather stations are mounted on mobile phone towers
Gaping gaps in weather and climate data across Africa may be filled by a partnership between humanitarian groups and mobile phone companies.

“Compensate Africa for global warming"

Andualem Sisay, AfricaNews reporter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, said the international community should limit global warming and pay compensation for the unavoidable damage caused by it to assist Africa overcome the economic challenges and sustain the economic development the continent witnessed over the past few years.

NIGERIA: Nomad-farmer clashes increase as pasture shrinks

KANO, 8 June 2009 (IRIN) - Amid deadly clashes with farmers and expulsion orders by state authorities, thousands of nomadic herders in Nigeria do not know where to turn.

Extending responsible fisheries management to the ocean deeps

FAO Newsroom:
On World Oceans Day, FAO releases technical guidelines on deep sea fishing
8 June 2009, Rome - On the first-ever UN World Oceans Day FAO has published a set of technical guidelines aimed at helping the fisheries sector reduce its impacts on fragile deep-sea fish species and ecosystems.

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Agriculture is essential for facing climate change

FAO Newsroom:
Climate change mitigation from agriculture could also benefit hunger and poverty reduction

3 June 2009, Rome - Agricultural mitigation in developing countries can make farming more resilient to the vagaries of climate change and can also reduce hunger and poverty, FAO said in a policy brief for climate change negotiators currently meeting in Bonn/Germany.

Climate change meeting on the front line

Nomadic cattle herders from eight West African countries stress the need for urgent action, as effects of climate change threaten their existence.

By Kristin Rødland Buick

Calculating the human cost of climate change - help or hindrance?

Calculating the human cost of climate change - help or hindrance?

Reuters blog post by Megan Rowling

Why does it seem so hard to put a credible face on the human impact of climate change? The latest effort to do so - a report commissioned the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), a Geneva-based organisation led by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and released on Friday - has been criticised for what some say is the shakiness of its data.