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[Desertification] Lake Chad: Drying, drying, disappearing (AfricaFiles ...: Farmers who rely on lake waters for irrigation are having to move nearer to the water or abandon their activities. Lack of water has caused pasture lands to shrivel up and led to a serious shortage of animal feed, estimated at 46.5 percent in some areas in 2006, resulting in cattle deaths and plummeting livestock production.

[FANRPAN News Feed] Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network ...: Though Africa had said it would demand US$67 billion annually for climate change, indications from Copenhagen, Denmark, venue of the UN Climate Change conference which ends Friday, is are that the continent may settle for far less - US$100 billion per annum. According to the text of the draft at the summit, rich countries are expected to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2017 compared to 1990 levels, rising to 65 percent by 2020. 

[AWID RSS Feed] Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices ...: Their personal and intimate experience of the harsh impacts of climate change means that within them lies very real solutions to combat it. If the voices from the women's rights movement don't pick up this issue, loudly, clearly and unanimously, climate change will not only drown out countries, but the agents of change, women, with it.

[Desertification] AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT DAY (ENB / IISD) « Desertification: The Agriculture and Rural Development Day event was held at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday, 12 December 2009. The event took place in parallel with the United Nations Climate Change Conference, including the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the fifth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 5), held in Denmark from 7-18 December 2008.

[TropIKA Home Feed] TropIKA: “Health-related adaptation” to climate change seen as a ...: “We don’t have enough heath projects because the LDCF must fund urgent and immediate needs under the threat of climate change,” said Bonizella Biagini, lead environmental specialist and co-ordinator of the Adaptation to Climate Change programme at GEF. “Even though health is one strong component, it was not identified as the first component.”

[Desertification] Nigeria : desertification, drought, gully erosion, flooding (NGO ...: As the world meets to find ways of mitigating the impact of climate change, Nigeria, like other African nations which are at the receiving end of the effects of the global climate change, is counting its losses from the impact of the phenomenon. From desertification and drought in the north to gully erosion and flooding in the south, Nigerians are witnessing first hand the effects of climate change on their socio-economic life.

[Croydon Fairtrade Network Blog] Climate Change March « Croydon Fairtrade Network Blog: Many of the developing communities that are supported by Faitrade partners are already feeling the effects of climate change.  Whether it is communities in Bangladesh or the West Indies who are subjected to more frequent and more severe storm incidents and flooding,  or communities in East Africa and Central Asia who are seeing increasing desertification, climate change is a reality for those who are least able to combat it.  Trade, engagement with the world community, is possibly the most powerful tool available to defend these societies.  It empowers the people to plan and develope as they wish to, without the dependence that aid, being via governmental aid or traditional charities, engenders.  Even if global warming is not happening, or is not man-made, the response, involving as it does more focus on the needs of the developing, majority, world, is a just and proper action, worthy of support.

[International Conservation News] International Conservation News » Blog Archive » UNESCO claims ...: The report Case Studies on Climate Change and World Heritage features 26 case studies from UNESCO’s 830 listed World Heritage sites, including the Tower of London, Timbuktu in Mali and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The report’s authors claim that changes in soil temperature and precipitation levels will affect the preservation of buried archaeological remains, while exposed sites (such as Peru’s Chan Chan complex) are at risk of erosion and damage from changing weather conditions.

[Helpage International Blogs] Helpage International Blogs » Blog Archive » Copenhagen: Climate ...: This research looked at the desertification of 8 African states bordering the Sahara through the memories and recollections of older people. They speak about their changing environment, prolonged drought and struggle to survive. ... This entry was posted on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 1:30 pm and is filed under climate change. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. ...

[Namibia's Online Community] A rough guide to climate change in Africa - Namibia's Online Community: The World Economic and Social Survey (WESS), published annually by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs, has devoted its 2009 issue to climate change. It includes an accessible, if unsettling, guide to some of the major .

[HONDURAS OYE!] Pres. Chavez' Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen « HONDURAS OYE!: President, that a spectre is haunting Copenhagen, to paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a spectre is haunting the streets of Copenhagen, and I think that spectre walks silently through this room, walking around among us, through the halls, out below, it rises, this spectre is a terrible spectre almost nobody wants to mention it: Capitalism is the spectre, almost nobody wants to mention it.

[Asian Correspondent: Global Feed] A closer look at the Accord to Save the World | Asian Correspondent: Funding for adaptation will be prioritized for the most vulnerable developing countries, such as the least developed countries, small island developing states and countries in Africa affected by drought, desertification and floods. The primary result of the Copenhagen Accord appears to be a broad and undefined commitment to dole out more foreign aid in the name of climate change.

[Good Food Spy Blog] Good Food Spy Blog » Climate Change and Food: Some people are worried that if Climate Change occurs, that there will be increased desertification and an inability for humanity to feed itself and resulting mass starvation. This is often presented that …

[Washington Examiner Site Feed] Barbara Hollingsworth: Who's who on climate fraud | Washington ...: But how do the deniers explain the melting of glaciers and the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps, the obvious climate change we are experiencing, the deforestation and desertification, the shrinking of arable land, resource depletion, growing pollution and waste accumulation? And when do they think world overpopulation will finally be recognized as a serious problem, as the Ford administration did in 1975 when it issued the NSSM 200 report, now that world population is half again as large (6.8 billion and growing) and over one billion are living at the edge of starvation?

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