Melting chocolate: climate change threatens West Africa’s cocoa dominance
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire will be forced to adapt or relocate by higher temperatures
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925 million in chronic hunger worldwide
Though improved, global hunger level “unacceptable”
Government computers illegally exported as waste
Government computers have been illegally dumped in developing countries, raising national security and environmental concerns, it can be revealed.
Five tonnes of illegal ‘bushmeat’ being smuggled into Europe each week
Several tonnes of illegal "bushmeat" from animals ranging from primates to crocodiles are being smuggled in luggage each week through one of Europe's busiest airports, researchers said today.
Final push to eradicate Guinea worm
Guinea worm, the agonizing water-borne parasite, could be eradicated within “two to three years” from Southern Sudan, health officials say.
Cluster bombs banned
The Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), which seeks to ban the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of these weapons, has been ratified and will enter into force on 1 August 2010.
The end of pollution? — new report highlights top 12 cleanups and successes from around the world that may pave the way
A new report issued today by New York-based Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland highlights 12 successful approaches in use today to clean up some of the world’s worst polluted places.
Africa leaders unite on malaria
Fourteen African heads of state are due to launch a scheme aimed at ridding the continent of almost all malaria-related deaths within six years.
GHANA: Plummeting profits drive tomato farmers to suicide
With cross-border price-undercutting, mounting debt and a lack of buyers, many tomato farmers in Ghana's Upper East Region are turning to suicide.
Lack of transparent taxation in Africa’s mineral wealth
A group of african and international civil society organisations have compiled a report, about the lack of transparency in mining contracts, as well as the revenue that national budgets forego because of excessive mining tax concessions as well as [...]