Environment

Addis Ababa, 18 July– – World-renowned disaster experts on Friday declared the devastating crisis that is crippling Ethiopia a famine. The team, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), asserted that the magnitude […]

Dakar, 14 July– Senegal has said it will not grant any new permits for quarrying and mining in the country’s 233 forest conservation areas. The government has said it will encourage companies already operating there […]

London/Washington, July 14– A landmark report released jointly by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for fundamental changes in how decisions are made concerning […]

Johannesburg, 11 July– The outlook for seed availability for the 2003/04 growing season is mixed, warns the latest Southern African Development Community (SADC) Food Security Network Ministerial Brief. Zimbabwe, with about 5 million people said […]

New York, 9 July– A United Nations commission that is the highest international body on food standards has adopted a landmark agreement on assessing the risks to consumers from foods derived from biotechnology, including genetically […]

Vienna, 7 July— The United Nations Nuclear watchdog agency warned today that while the current system of regulating the transport of radioactive material has an “excellent” safety record, more remains to be done at a […]

Maputo, Mozambique, 3 July– The Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Jacques Diouf, has called on African leaders to give greater priority and allocate adequate resources to the sector in order […]

Maputo, 28 June– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warmly welcomed the first shipment of 16,000 tons of South African maize, which will help the agency continue to provide urgent aid for thousands […]