Climate
The hub for agriculture and farming news on climate in Africa.
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Kenyan farmers battle fruit-fly menace as climate warms
Gideon Gitonga inspected his avocado orchard in central Kenya with military precision, revealing that some of the fruit were tinged…
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The cost of fighting desert locusts in East Africa has doubled
The money needed to combat a desert locust outbreak in eastern Africa has doubled to $138 million, the Food and…
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Kenyan farmers find sweet spot with nutritious, drought-hardy crop
A sweet scent filled the air as workers dressed in white gumboots, aprons and hats mixed ingredients and rolled out…
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Satellite data brings farming advice to remote areas of Zimbabwe
Deep in rural western Zimbabwe, where tarred roads are nonexistent, Japhet Ngwenya used to spend every season worrying that the…
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Climate change and Southern African drought
Many experts believe that climate change will affect more to the northern hemisphere of the earth than the southern hemisphere…
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Years of drought threaten South Africa’s wildlife industry
A severe drought is threatening South Africa’s wildlife industry, with game farmers keeping fewer animals and tourists visiting game lodges…
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7,000 Tons of Tanzanian Corn Heading to Zimbabwe
The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority is to transport 7,000 tons of corn from Tanzania to Zimbabwe as the southern African nation…
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Dought-hit Zimbabwe readies mass wildlife migration
Zimbabwe is planning an enforced mass migration of wildlife away from a park in the country’s south, where thousands of…
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