Environment

ARLINGTON, Virginia– A new study provides evidence that increasing air and water temperatures directly linked to climatic warming are shrinking fish and algae populations in Lake Tanganyika, a large freshwater lake that provides a critical […]

Nairobi– Experts have indicated there may be some recovery in Eritrea’s food production prospects, but stressed it is still too early to say whether the current heavy rains pounding parts of the country have brought […]

Harare– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a 25 million Euro donation from the European Commission to help alleviate widespread hunger in Zimbabwe. This is part of a 100 million Euro gift […]

Johannesburg– A senior official from the Namibian ministry of lands on Monday denied that members of the country’s elite had abused affirmative action loans meant to benefit communal farmers. Last week the opposition Congress of […]

Nairobi/Rome– As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations World Food Programme has given a warning that nearly half a million displaced people face severe hunger, because a […]

Johannesburg– Moves are underway to assist vulnerable families with livestock development in the drought-hit Matabeleland South province of Zimbabwe. Siboniso Moyo, director of the Department of Livestock Production and Development, told IRIN on Tuesday that […]

Geneva– The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expressed deep concern today over an estimated 300,000 people cut off by floods in the northern part of Sudan, where it is already feeding 3.2 million people […]

Rome, 4 August– A major threat to food production in northern Afghanistan has been averted thanks to a successful locust control campaign coordinated by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the face […]