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Tribal Farming Beats Climate Change
By Manipadma Jena*
RAYAGADA, India - Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable farming in this rain-dependent hinterland of eastern Odisha state – mixed cropping.
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Ghanaian Fisherfolk Blasting Their Way to Finding Fish
By Jessica McDiarmid
TAKORADI-SEKONDI, Ghana - Explosives, high-watt light bulbs, monofilament nets, and poison: these are a few methods fisherfolk are using to catch ever-dwindling fish stocks off Ghana’s shores.
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Western Ghana’s Fisherfolk Starve Amid Algae Infestation
By Jessica McDiarmid
BEYIN, Ghana - Sam Kojo stands in a thigh-high pile of brown seaweed that blankets a beach in western Ghana. Behind him, a decomposing mound of Sargassum stretches down the shore past the fishing village of Beyin.
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The Business of South Africa’s Garbage
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Nokwanda Sotyantya sits among heaps of garbage and patiently sorts through it, separating cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and metal, piece by piece. The recycled piles of trash are then weighed and sold to packaging manufacturers in South Africa that reuse the materials to create new products.
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Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and other sources.
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Development Deficit Compounds Indian Sundarbans Crisis
By Sujoy Dhar
KOLKATA - Sahara Bibi, a 47-year-old poor Muslim woman living on one of the climate- impacted islands of Eastern India’s fragile Sundarbans archipelago in West Bengal state, was forced to pull her two young sons out of school and send one of them to the Southern state of Kerala to earn a decent income.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Rural School Running on Methane Bio-Gas
By Lee Middleton
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Tucked against the rolling hills of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, a small rural school has been turning its kitchen scraps, and agricultural and human waste into methane gas for cooking, and nutrient-rich fertiliser, and is even recycling its water.
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Tentative Steps Towards Adaptation
By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman*
KIKWIT, DR Congo - Governments and civil society organisations in Central Africa are slowly developing strategies in response to global warming. But specialists say the steps being taken seem hesitant in the face of emerging realities.
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MAURITANIA
Ravaged by Drought - the Number of Malnourished Children Rises
By Kristin Palitza
NOUAKCHOTT - Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished herself, cannot produce enough breast milk to feed them.
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ARGENTINA
Progress in River Clean-Up Praised - With Reservations
By Marcela Valente *
BUENOS AIRES - For the first time in over 200 years, visible progress is being made in cleaning up the Matanza-Riachuelo River basin, the most highly polluted in Argentina, although improvements remain largely superficial so far.
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AFRICA
Miracle Tree is Like a Supermarket
By Kristin Palitza
CAPE TOWN - When a food crisis hits the continent, African countries tend to look to the international donor community to mobilise aid. But a fast-growing, drought- resistant tree with extremely nutritious leaves could help poor, arid nations to fight food insecurity and malnutrition on their own.
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BALKANS
The Dark Side of Serbia's Oil Shale Fairy Tale
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - According to an old Serbian fairy tale, God tells a poor man who enters a gold mine that no matter what he chooses to do inside, he'll be sorry when he leaves. If he takes some gold, he'll be sorry for not taking more; if he doesn't, he'll be sorry for not taking any at all.
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INDIA
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 2
By Malini Shankar
BANGALORE - As the amount of protected forest dwindles rapidly in India, indigenous groups and wildlife find themselves living cheek to jowl in an increasingly contested space.
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