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Planting groundnuts on a family farm in Uganda. Badru Katumba/Getty Images

Millions of farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes region face rising temperatures. Study predicts how crop disease and pests could spread

Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
Kenyan women fetch water the morning after it rained for the first time in over a year in Turkana. Lynsey Addario/Getty Images

Climate change is worsening violent extremism in Kenya – what can be done

Climate change increases vulnerability to extremist recruitment, while al-Shabaab activity blocks adaptation, reinforcing a cycle of fragility.
In Ghana, there are persistent disputes between industrial and small-scale fishers over access to the sea. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images

Disputes over Africa’s ocean resources: here’s what could help avoid them

As ocean uses expand, it will be necessary to reduce disputes because they disrupt the environmental sustainability and equity central to a blue economy.
Forest, Uganda. Julie Ricard, Unsplash

Planting trees to remove carbon can harm the environment – or protect it: study highlights trade‑offs

Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.
Nocry Mzimba and Nurse Molamadi of the Black Mambas anti-poaching unit patrol Olifants West Nature Reserve, South Africa to prevent wildlife poaching. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Should wildlife parks be fenced? We studied 60 African examples for an answer

Nature reserve fences can protect wildlife and people, but they also break up natural landscapes, restrict animal movement, and affect nearby communities.

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