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 IRIN  30/06/2010NAIROBI – If a new bill seeking price controls on maize, wheat and other essential commodities is implemented, it may benefit the poor who have been priced out of food in the short term but is unsustainable in the long term, warn analysts. Kenya’s parliament recently passed the Price Controls (Essential Goods) Bill, which is awaiting presidential approval. Continue reading Short-term gains of price controls outweighed in long term, say analysts IRIN 30/06/2010NAIROBI – Pastoralists across East Africa are set to benefit as the region’s national borders are relaxed amid joint efforts to mitigate the risks associated with their migration. Continue reading Freedom of movement to help pastoralist lifestyles IRIN 25/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – Life is mostly hard in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, but the chronic droughts that seem to signal the unfolding impact of climate change are projected to become more severe, and could squeeze cultivable land from an already slim 10 percent to a mere three percent in 25 years. IRIN 22/06/2010DAKAR – Nigeriens are likely to take years to recover from selling their weakened livestock at a fraction of its normal value due to drought in the Sahel region. Continue reading Forced to sell cattle for a handful of dollars IRIN 22/06/2010JOHANNESBURG – Ghana, often hailed as a success story in West African agriculture, tops a global list of 10 countries that have managed to slash their number of hungry people by a huge margin. IRIN 21/06/2010HARGEISA – With more and more drought-affected pastoralists in the self-declared republic of Somaliland seeking alternative livelihoods in urban areas, aid organizations and the government are instituting measures to not only check the rural-urban migration but also support those remaining in rural areas. IRIN 18/06/2010MONROVIA – At first glance it looks like a fully grown tropical forest, but among the thick undergrowth, the trees still stand in lines, their trunks deeply scarred. This was once a productive rubber plantation; now it is part of Liberia’s estimated 600,000ha of overgrown and moribund rubber farms. IRIN 17/06/2010N’DJAMENA – For decades, the government in Chad saw the environment as “the white man’s problem” said Minister of Environment, Hassan Térap. “For so long, it was a problem for rich countries, but now our land has been denuded, cattle are dying water is shrinking, it is our problem too,” the minister told IRIN. IRIN 14/06/2010MAO – In rural Chad cattle are currency, the down-payment on ceremonies, a savings plan during sickness and emergency food in lean times. So the loss of an estimated one-third of the country’s livestock to drought has been a disaster, with desperate pastoralists trying to make it until the next rains as best they can. IRIN 08/06/2010NAIROBI – Perishable, poisonous if mishandled and reputedly fit only for the plates of the poor, the cassava plant is set for an east African makeover by agronomists who hope to unlock its potential as a cash crop with a host of industrial uses. The key, they say, is to add value locally. |
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