Climate change is making life tougher. Across Africa, failed harvests, shrinking water supplies and more extreme weather are leaving millions of people hungry and forcing many from their homes. When communities compete for land and water, the risk of conflict can grow. African governments are now developing a Common African Position on Climate, Peace and…
Browsing: Climate
Africa’s demand for climate action that reaches people’s everyday lives took centre stage in Addis Ababa at the opening of the Fourteenth Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-XIV), bringing together representatives from across the continent to address the gap between international commitments and delivery. Scheduled for September 7–9, 2026, the gathering brought…
Across Africa, people are restoring and managing mangroves, grazing lands and urban green areas in the face of increasing threats from climate change. Increasingly they make decisions based on climate-related information supplied by governments, funders and researchers.
Climate change has already doubled the world’s heatwaves between 2024 and 2025 and brought more severe droughts, floods and water shortages to Africa. These changes are damaging crops, homes, infrastructure and ecosystems, and placing growing pressure on people’s health and livelihoods.
African countries have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting their people from the worsening effects of climate change. These commitments form part of the Paris Agreement, an international climate treaty adopted in 2015 in which countries agreed to take steps to limit global warming.
Smallholder farmers across East Africa are being offered a new route to finance climate-resilient agriculture through the Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism, known as ARCAFIM. Launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and Equity Group at the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 in Kigali, the US$200 million initiative will support farmers and rural…
Africa’s climate challenge is becoming an economic and development issue that governments, investors and international institutions can no longer treat separately from growth planning. The 2026 report New Data for Africa’s Changing Climate: Mapping Risks, Readiness and Policy Action, prepared through work involving the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD Sahel and West…
The profile of social activism in North Africa is changing. Young people in the region shifted away from demanding regime change after the thwarted hopes of the 2011 Arab uprisings and the 2019 Hirak movement in Algeria. Now, they tend to seek practical improvements in their social and economic conditions rather than wholesale political reform.
This seminar explores what happens when global greening agendas encounter places across Africa and Asia shaped by conflict and struggles over land and ren become entangled with territorial control, exclusion and militarisation
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers are already changing how they grow crops, manage water, raise livestock and diversify incomes in response to drought, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures. The more troubling finding from a new systematic review is that many of these adaptations can improve food security, yet the institutions needed to spread them remain…
