Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
110
Resources
162
Stories
319
Feature
15th December 2020
Accelerating climate-resilient water management - Africa’s ambitious agenda for change What will it take for Africa to adapt sufficiently to climate change by 2050? What should stakeholders do to accelerate effective, inclusive climate change adaptation in Africa? Alex Simalabwi, Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) Southern Africa and Head of GWP Africa Coordination Unit, outlines the ambitious measures that governments and their international partners are already taking.  
Feature
14th December 2020
Cape Town, South Africa: Urban farming on the rise to boost people’s food security In Cape Town, South Africa, civil society organisations are stepping up their efforts to ensure food security by supporting small-scale farming during COVID-19. Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar reports. This is the twenty-seventh in the series of stories from Voices from the Frontline initiative by ICCCAD and CDKN.
Resource
10th December 2020
Ethiopia NDC Highlights newsletter: November 2020 This third NDC Highlights newsletter features articles on the agricultural sector’s contributions towards the success of Ethiopia’s NDC.
News
8th December 2020
Wiki4Climate - improving the global knowledge on climate change through Wikipedia From 24th November to 1st December, 116 participants gathered online for Wiki4Climate, a week of Wikipedia editing on climate change topics, organised by FCFA and CDKN and with support from experienced Wikipedia editors. 
News
7th December 2020
New tool launched to help East African grain farmers to manage climate risks Guy Rudolph of CDKN describes a new Climate Information for Grains tool, which is designed to help farmers respond to climate change.
Feature
30th November 2020
Citizen-led groups support inclusive adaptation to climate change Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Chair of the Weather Chasers Group in Malawi, sees how the group has developed into an energetic, dynamic force for environmental protection in the country and is part of a larger civil society movement for positive change.
Feature
30th November 2020
Nature for recovery and resilience Alex McNamara, Water Lead of National Business Initiative (NBI), South Africa says that valui
Feature
30th November 2020
Applying nature-based solutions system-wide offers great potential for adaptation Professor Sosten Chiotha shares his vision of holistic, sustainable adaptation to climate change - based on years of experience in his native Malawi. This is one of a series of blogs highlighting potential for 'accelerated adaptation in Africa' in the run-up to the Climate Adaptation Summit, January 2021.
Feature
30th November 2020
Korogocho, Kenya: The power of art during crisis In Korogocho, an informal settlement of Nairobi, Kenya, a community- based organisation is mobilising a group of artists and creating graffiti to build awareness regarding COVID-19. Daniel Onyango reports.
Feature
30th November 2020
Virtual training faces challenges - and also important rewards The University of Nairobi learned a lot about the potential for virtual training when it was forced to go online in mid-2020. Lucia Scodanibbio of CDKN interviewed Staline Kibet from the university, and sends this report.  
Feature
27th November 2020
Building smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change for food security in a future climate in Ghana Prof. Philip Antwi-Agyei, Associate Professor in Environmental Science at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, gives a first-hand account of how climate change is undermining food security in northern Ghana – and what to do about it.
Feature
20th November 2020
Cape Town, South Africa: Strengthening policy support for climate adaptation and transformation Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town, highlights the need for community-level capacity building and knowledge co-creation for effective water management and adaptation to climate change.