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NAIROBI, June 29 (IPS) - A team of universities, led by Addis Ababa University, has joined forces to implement a four-year Intra-Africa academic mobility project aimed at strengthening agroforestry research and education for climate change mitigation ...

LONDON & KARACHI, Pakistan, June 26 (IPS) - The 30 COP gatherings may not have done what three months of US-Israeli war against Iran did: expose the world's vulnerability to fossil fuels.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 26 (IPS) - On 21 June Colombians made their choice. By the narrowest of margins, Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right criminal lawyer who's never held elected office, became president-elect. Climate activists, human rights ...

WASHINGTON DC, June 26 (IPS) - For decades, official development assistance has been a central pillar of financing in sub-Saharan Africa. That pillar is now weakening--quickly and broadly.

WASINI, Kenya, June 26 (IPS) - As the afternoon sun casts a golden glow over Mukwiro village on Wasini Island on Kenya's Indian Ocean South Coast, Mwanasiti Mwalola, 26 and Mzungu Mohammed Dhossa, 45, stand at the community fish landing site, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 26 (IPS) - Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia are likely to still be reeling from the fuel and fertilizer crisis caused by conflict in the Middle East when what forecasters expect to be a "super" El Niño arrives later this . ...

URBANA, Illinois, US, June 25 (IPS) - Across the United States, record breaking extreme weather events have already occurred, including severe storms and Tornadoes in the State of Illinois to flooding in Texas, southern Wisconsin and the South. ...

LONDON & DAR ES SALAAM, June 25 (IPS) - Before anyone called her an innovator, before artificial intelligence entered the conversation, before solar-powered cold rooms, before the language of sustainable development, Shifra Ainomugisha knew food loss ...

OUIDAH, Benin, June 25 (IPS) - It is barely noon, and a group of women sit near the beach on the outskirts of Djégbadji village, in West Africa's Benin, sifting through mounds of salt harvested from the Gulf of Guinea's ocean.

SYDNEY, June 25 (IPS) - June 27-28 is the 16th Social Business Day, observed in Savar (Dhaka) Bangladesh. In June 2024 at the Western Sydney University's graduation ceremony where I was conferred Emeritus Professor status, I urged the new business .. ...