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Monthly Archives: August, 2014

FAO seeks improved policy implementation to promote agriculture

The Food and Agriculture Organisation  (FAO)  has attributed the slow pace of agricultural development in Africa to poor implementation of policies.   The FAO Representative to Nigeria,...

IPCC’s AR5 and Africa: How climate change threatens continent’s fragile growth

The third feature in the series lays emphasis on the fact that climate change poses challenges to growth and development in Africa   The emissions already...

Nasarawa villages get access to sustainable energy

Three rural communities in North Central Nigeria are beneficiaries to a scheme designed to give countryside folks access to sustainable energy and boost their...

IPCC’s AR5 and Africa: Climate will change inevitably till 2050

The second part of the serial highlights the IPCC’s notion that, regardless of action taken now to reduce emissions, the climate will change until...

Climate legal framework sought for states’ development plans

Environmentalists are seeking the establishment of a legal framework that supports the mainstreaming of climate change scenario into states’ development plans and strategies. They...

Nigeria, UN-Habitat promote youth empowerment, safer cities

The Federal Government has signed an agreement with United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) that aims at promoting urban youth empowerment and safer cities. The deal...

Kutigi’s peace moves succeed as ‎National Conference ends‎ without rancour

The National Conference, which began on March 17, came to an end on Thursday morning.   The series of meetings the Confab chairman, Idris Kutigi, held...

IPCC’s AR5 and Africa: Climate is changing, impacts are being felt

In this first of a nine-part serial, EnviroNews Nigeria examines the implications of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

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BATN Foundation commissions solar-powered borehole tó end 30-year water crisis in Kano community

 “For 30 years, we fetched water from far places, paying N100naira for a jerrican of water that wasn’t even...
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BATN Foundation, SwagCo flag off Maize Micro-Enterprise Project to empower Ekiti farmers

In a landmark move to boost food security and rural livelihoods, the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) in...

NBSAP: A welcome step toward food sovereignty, biosafety

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) commends the Federal Government for endorsing the revised National Biodiversity Strategy and Action...

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