Africa: Africa Renewing Partnership to Check Hunger
Source: All Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-21 00:23:31 -0700 | green-news
Despite hopeful economic growth in recent years, 25 per cent of Africa's population is undernourished. The economy of the continent has grown up by 5 per cent on average in the last decade; Yet tackling undernourishment has been one of...
Africa: African Soil Diversity Mapped for the First Time
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 06:43:30 -0700 | green-news
They say that despite soil's importance, most people in Africa lack knowledge about it, partly because information about it tends to be confined to academic publications read only by scientists. "There was an existing database on soil that had not...
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Detoxified - Last Shipment of Unwanted Pesticides Leaves Country
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-05 21:47:30 -0700 | green-news
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) shipped the last of the accumulated outdated pesticides last week. This was part of a total stock of 2,600tns identified as being located throughout the country since 2000. The shipment of the pesticide stockpile took...
Africa: Spotlight On Africa's Life Source - First Soil Atlas of Africa
Source: All Africa
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-30 04:09:45 -0700 | green-news
The European Commission has presented on April 26th the first Soil Atlas of Africa, at the College-to-College meeting of the European Commission and the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa. The Atlas highlights a vital natural resource which provides food,...
What's being done about Ethiopian dam's harmful effects on Kenya?
Source: Daily Nation
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-27 10:51:32 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Having come to power committed to peasant farmer-based democratic political economy, Ethiopia has become one of the African countries with the most extensive large-scale allocations of land to external developers leaving uncertain the status, circumstances, and prospects...
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Enlists Help of Forest Communities to Reverse Deforestation
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-23 00:27:05 -0700 | green-news
Despite taking years to establish the first projects, growth in forest cover and increasing incomes for the communities involved have enabled bigger schemes to begin When the Ethiopian government realised that outright bans on cutting down trees failed to stop...
Ethiopia: Getting Cities Right
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-21 22:44:14 -0700 | green-news
But unplanned and uncoordinated urban development is risky, threatening to replace migrants' hopes for a better life with unsanitary living conditions, joblessness, and high exposure to natural disasters...After all, cities are the hubs of prosperity, where more than 80pc of...
Ethiopia: Gibe-III - Could Activism Stall a Viable Project?
Source: Africa Headlines
Bahir Dar :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-21 22:44:13 -0700 | green-news
Last month, I had an informative chat with a state minister for the energy sector, in Bahir Dar...I asked him: Is there any probability that the Gibe-III dam project could be stalled or reversed? It sounded such a ridiculous question...
Ethiopia: Six New Clean Energy Projects On Tap for Exploration
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-21 22:44:00 -0700 | green-news
The Ministry of Water & Energy (MoWE) and the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), have setup a joint steering committee that will develop and implement clean and renewable energy projects which can later be entered into the carbon trading scheme.
Moral climate: Beyond science and politics
Source: The Salt Lake City Tribune
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-21 00:53:53 -0700 | green-news
The voice of religion » "If we profess a love for God, for each other, our neighbors as ourselves, shouldn't we be protecting what God loves, which is the creation?" asked Sally Grover Bingham, an Episcopal priest and founder of...
Aid Agencies Turn Blind Eye to ‘Catastrophe' In Ethiopia
Source: Scoop
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-15 21:27:10 -0700 | green-news
Aid Agencies Turn Blind Eye to Catastrophe' In Ethiopia Three new reports predict disaster in Lower Omo Valley Three independent reports have warned that the controversial Gibe III dam, and land grabs for plantations, risk imminent catastrophe' in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley. Bodi,...
Ethiopia Leads the Bamboo Revolution
Source: Inter Press Service
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-08 00:54:49 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles Ethiopia currently has the largest area one million hectares of commercially untapped bamboo in East Africa, making it attractive to investment partners from the bamboo industry. However, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development told IPS that they...
Ethiopia's Quest for Deeper Water
Source: Epoch Times
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-03 22:52:43 -0700 | green-news
EthiopiaThe dry season is at its peak in the Somali Region of Ethiopia, and due to scarcer rains, a new food and water emergency looms. With the 2011 famine in memory, the Ethiopian government, the people, and aid organizations search...
For Climate Action, 2013 “Good as It'll Get”: Nicholas Stern
Source: Inter Press Service
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-04-03 15:24:35 -0700 | green-news
A confluence of factors could make 2013 the most fruitful opportunity in years and for years for potentially major action on climate change, according to a leading voice on climate change policy, the British economist Nicholas Stern. Nicholas Stern has...
Ethiopia imports $1 billion in fuel from Sudan via Djibouti
Source: Sudan Tribune
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-03-30 19:42:35 -0700 | green-news
Saturday that the nation has imported over 1 million metric tonnes of petroleum from neighbouring Sudan via the port of Djibouti. Officials said the stated fuel amount was imported at a cost $1.12 billion over the past six months. A...
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