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How Farmers Are Learning About Restoring Soils and Scaling Agroecology in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
MAKUENI, Kenya, July 15 (IPS) - At Yumbuni Village in Kenya’s Makueni County, farmers from Vihiga and Kakamega counties have travelled over 560 kilometres to join their colleagues in Kathonzweni Ward and see the progress of experiments being carried out on different homemade organic fertilisers and other farm inputs.
Where did the Billion Dollar Funding for Rohingya Refugees Go?
- Inter Press Service
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh, July 10 (IPS) - Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains swept through the world’s most densely populated concentration of refugee camps this week, killing at least 14 Rohingya refugees, most of them women and girls.
Why Pastoral Production Requires Regional Coordination, Harmonised Policy
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, July 10 (IPS) - At the 64th sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) under the UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany, the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) underscored the importance of ethically and equitably incorporating indigenous values and knowledge and local knowledge systems such as pastoralism into climate policies and actions ahead of the 31st Conference of Parties on climate change (COP31).
Invasive Prickly Pear Turned into Food, Clean Energy Source
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, July 9 (IPS) - An international academic partnership is helping turn one of Laikipia County’s most destructive and invasive plants, the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia stricta), into a source of food security and clean energy while also helping end perennial resource conflict in the region.
Peak heat in Europe just broke historic 1970s records
- UN News
This year marks the hottest June recorded for Western Europe and the second warmest globally, according to the latest report from a climate tracking service released on Thursday.
Inside GEF’s Blended Finance Push: Turning Public Money Into Private Capital Leverage
- Inter Press Service
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, July 7 (IPS) - For most of the Eighth Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Assembly last month, the atmosphere inside Samarkand’s sprawling Congress Centre echoed a growing confidence of global environmental policymakers.
Southwest Pacific’s last tropical glacier could vanish within months
- UN News
The Southwest Pacific is facing mounting climate risks as its vast ocean expanse becomes hotter, more acidic and more dangerous for coastal communities, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a report published on Tuesday.
CARICOM Leaders Gather in Saint Lucia as Caribbean Confronts Mounting Global, Regional Challenges
- Inter Press Service
GROS ISLET, Saint Lucia , July 6 (IPS) - Caribbean leaders are meeting in Saint Lucia for their annual summit, confronting a convergence of global and regional challenges ranging from rising living costs and climate change to crime, food security and geopolitical tensions.
Venezuela quake: UN continues to scale up as damage estimate reaches $37 billion
- UN News
The UN and its partners are ramping up assistance for people affected by the earthquakes in Venezuela, working alongside the Government's response effort, as a new UN estimate puts direct physical damage at $37 billion.
Europe’s Heat Wave Shows Climate Change Is Not Just a Poor-Countries Issue
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, July 3 (IPS) - If you pay close attention to the rhetoric regarding climate change (at least in those forums still allowed to use the term), there has been a disturbing emerging trend among some climate-concerned thought leaders, as epitomized by Bill Gates’s letter to COP30 last fall.
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