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Monthly Archives: March, 2020

NEWMAP distributes 5,000 economic tree seedlings to farmers in Katsina

The Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) has distributed 5,000 economic tree seedlings free to farmers in Mai’adua and Zango Local Government Areas of Katsina...

Nigeria can tackle food insecurity with gene editing technology, says scientist

Nigeria, with population of over 180 million people, is fully ripe for gene editing technology as the country has several scientists that can accurately handle the...

Coronavirus: G7 foreign ministers meeting in U.S. to be held via teleconference

U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 that the U.S. has decided to host G7 foreign ministers meeting by teleconference instead of...

WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak a pandemic. A pandemic is an epidemic of disease that has spread across countries, continents,...

GCF approves $26.6m grant for UNDP-supported Zimbabwe project

The $26.6 million UNDP-supported “Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe” project will benefit 2.3 million people in a nation where the climate...

Covid-19: How a virus can change the world, by Nnimmo Bassey

Coronavirus, that tiny, invisible organism, has reminded humans that there are things that are not under our control. The virus has attacked the rich and the...

Why we urgently need a global biodiversity agreement – Lambertini

Director General, WWF International, Marco Lambertini, in an interview on the sidelines of the recently held Second Meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on...

2019 ended with 1.1 degree C of global heating – WMO

The tell-tale physical signs of climate change such as increasing land and ocean heat, accelerating sea level rise and melting ice are highlighted in a new...

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Ghana’s biosafety authority: Granting GMO import permits to be based on regulations, international best practices

Clearly, it will not be out of place to declare April 2024 as “the month of Genetic Engineering GE)”...
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Stakeholders advocate increased budget to fight impacts of climate change

Stakeholders in the environment sector have called for increased budget allocation to fight the impacts of climate change in...

Domestic ivory markets must not be reopened – EPI Foundation

The EPI Foundation, the secretariat to the 24 African member states of the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI), has expressed...

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