Africa

Conservation efforts towards protecting migrating bird habitats in Europe may be doomed to failure unless we tackle climate change and protect Africa's coastlines

In the latest blog the Atlantic Rising team look at how rising sea levels are poisoning local water sources in Western Ghana

Brazil becomes second biggest biotech grower after the US as industry predicts big increases in GM soybean, maize and cotton production in 2010

The west's veterinary drug drive is not working, say animal disease scientists who have started researching the effectiveness of plant-based treatments used in Ethiopia

Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward

Department for International Development (DfID) accused of failing to support long-term agricultural programmes and being obsessed with an 'industrial model' of food production

Aid agencies are well resourced and quick to act, but not enough of them appear to be using their power to tackle the long term problems posed by climate change. Tom Levitt reports

Millions more exposed as disease moves into higher altitude areas in Kenya and Tanzania

An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever

The costs associated with sending delegates to a conference like Copenhagen are prohibitive for many countries

Higher temperatures cause declines in crop yields and 'economic welfare' which increases the risk of conflict

Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel

Forget trying to grow hybrid maize - Africa already has all the crops, storage systems and knowledge that it needs to grow itself out of poverty

Climate Radio reports on how and why the African delegation threatened to walk out of the recent climate negotiations

The German-led Desertec initiative believes it can deliver power to Europe as early as 2015

The team discovers that, even in the midst of marine beauty, the ever rising tides exact a terrible price

When inadequate coastal walls only make the effects of sea level rise worse, is it time to move further inland?

Green Revolution architect Norman Borlaug is credited with 'feeding India'. But the feat took more than hybrid varieties and fertiliser, and it will take a much more sophisticated approach to help Africa feed itself

Giant wind farms may grab the headlines but plans to develop local off-grid electricity will have bigger impact on Africans and carbon emissions

With surging demand for power and blackouts common across the continent, Africa is looking to solar, wind and geothermal technologies to meet its energy needs

With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic

Cape gannet chicks are facing starvation as a result of overfishing of sardines and anchovies off the coast of southern Africa, as well as an increase in predation by other species affected by the food shortage

The vast dams clogging the veins of Africa are instruments of control rather than promised hydroelectric liberation. Khadija Sharife investigates.

A charity has given millions to a biotechnology organisation in an aim to advance the use of biotechnology on crops in developing countries.