Climate Change Brews Up Trouble for Coffee Growers

By Peter Baker*

How will climate change affect coffee production, and what should we do about it?
Coffee is the world’s most valuable tropical agricultural export — produced by about 20 million smallholder families — so these are important questions.
The weather outlook for coffee growers over the next millennium is poor: it will be hotter everywhere, [...]

Climate Change Concerns by African Scientists

By Paul Okunlola*
“The crisis of the 21st Century may not be triggered by ideology but by competition for natural resources, particularly in Africa.”
That was the stark message delivered by Dr. Cheikh Mbow, a bio-geography and remote sensing expert from the Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal declared recently in Ougadougou, Burkina Faso.
Listing as tell-tale [...]

Agriculture in Developing Nations Can Address Food Security

By Marshall Bouton*
As the world still struggles to deal with the first truly global recession, little attention has been given to the growing number of hungry people and the possibility of mounting food crises in the years ahead.
According to the World Bank, over a billion people around the world are now chronically hungry.
Stagnant agricultural productivity, [...]

Sustainable Green Revolution Must Be Part of Climate Change Talks

By Nora Ourabah*
After two intense weeks of negotiations, the Seventeenth Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, which took place from May 4-15 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, adopted by acclamation “a text a prepared by the Chair”.
The text gives conclusions on policy options and practical measures to expedite implementation of sustainable [...]

Africa Needs Local Solutions for Global Warming Mitigation

The Editor/ Publisher of GreenBusinessAfrica.com, Sam Ooko, was recently interviewed on the Eco-Heroes segment at cooltribe, a new, innovative green online social community with passion for environment, health and social justice.
Hessia Fernandez, founder of cooltribe, asked him why he thinks Africa should be at the forefront of mitigating climate change. Here are the excerpts:
1. HF: [...]