Climate information plays an important role in providing Early Warning Systems and increasing awareness of building capacity and disaster preparedness for a changing climate. Although women farmers…
Climate change is now compromising the sustainability of human development on the planet because it threatens human health and the ecological support systems on which life depends. Health impact o…
There will be a time, in most of the world, when the last well goes dry. And this is because so much of the world lives already on the brink of a dreadful thirst, a life only made tolerable becau…
Conversation: Desiree Lewis talks to Molara Ogundipe, leading feminist theorist, poet, literary critic, educator and activist, about the interface of politics, culture and education.
Women throughout the world are particularly vulnerable to the threats posed by a changing climate. These threats to the environment puts women's livelihoods, families, health, security, rights and …
The population of sub-Saharan Africa is currently estimated to be 1245 million and is expected to quadruple by the end of the century, necessitating the building of millions of homes. Malaria rema…
Globally, there are social, economic and environmental challenges related to sustainable development; these challenges include climate change, the need to feed a rapidly increasing population, high…
Although climate change can adversely impact, frustrate, deter, and reverse social and human development, it also holds the potential to foster and contribute positively. Climate change impacts, th…
Climate change is a threat to sustainable development in Africa. The continent is home to the world's most susceptible populations, because of the sensitivity and fragility of its natural environme…
Given its associated burden of disease, climate change in South Africa could be reframed as predominately a health issue, one necessitating an urgent health-sector response. The growing impact of…