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.
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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
