Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Across most of Africa, rural communities grow their own food, relying on smallholder agriculture. But climate change is threatening this way of life. Rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and degraded soils are already shrinking harvests. This is pushing millions of smallholder farmers into deeper poverty. Yet some African farmers are embracing innovative, cost-effective and environmentally friendly…

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Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Africa: Egypt Welcomes Coordination With South Africa Under Its G20 Presidency to Advance Gfs Reform

Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation Rania el-Mashat said Egypt welcomes coordination with South Africa within the framework of its presidency of the G20 to push forward restructuring the Global Financial System (GFS) and achieve tangible progress in development financing, highlighting the joint role that Egypt and South Africa play as “cornerstones” of…

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Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Africa Needs a Voice On Information Integrity and Media Freedom At G20 Summit

South Africa’s G20 presidency shouldn’t drop the baton passed by Brazil on this crucial issue that underpins good governance. As leaders of the world’s major economies prepare for the November G20 Johannesburg Summit, champions of South Africa’s journalism industry are working to ensure that information integrity and media freedom are not overlooked. The two issues…

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Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Africa: South Africa Looks to Global Lessons As It Sharpens Its Focus On Gender Priorities At G20

As the G20 Technical Meetings continue in South Africa, a powerful voice is emerging from within the country’s leadership, calling for bolder and more targeted investments in women, youth, and persons with disabilities. Advocate Joyce Mikateko Maluleke, the Chairperson of the G20 Empowerment Women Working Group (EWWG) and Director-General of the Department of Women, Youth…

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Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are Using Bright Ideas to Adapt to Climate Change – G20 Countries Should Fund Their Efforts

Africa: G20 Countries Could Produce Enough Renewable Energy for the Whole World – What Needs to Happen

The world’s most developed economies have also burnt the most oil and coal (fossil fuels) over the years, causing the most climate change damage. Preventing further climate change means a global fossil fuel phase-out must happen by 2050. Climate change mitigation scientists Sven Teske and Saori Miyake analysed the potential for renewable energy in each…

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