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The Fourth Meeting of the Parties to African-Eurasian Flyways for migratory waterbirds, AEWA (MOP4) begins in Antananarivo, Madagascar today and it is expected that participants will discuss declining populations of migratory waterbirds along their main migration routes in Africa and Eurasia. The decline is estimated at 41 per cent.

Suspected cholera outbreaks do not have to occur in Somalia on a periodic basis, UNICEF Representative Christian Balslev-Olesen, said today on the eve of the World Water Day.

Farmers are set to benefit from a $4.5 million cassava value-adding project, aimed at raising the profile of the tuber crop from being a “poor man’s crop” to a profitable and sustainable source of income.

Kenya legislated the Biosafety Act 2009 to govern research and utilization of modern biotechnology. This legislation came at an ideal time when emerging issues like food security, climate change, tourism development, the Mau forest crisis among other issues were being explored. One of the areas this technology could be handy in a holistic approach is in the reclamation of the Mau forest.

A new initiative to build scientific capacity in Africa has named its first three research and training networks following a competitive selection process.

Refugees based in Africa were recipient of over 600,000 long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed nets in 2009, the United Nations Foundation's Nothing But Nets—a global, grassroots campaign to prevent malaria in Africa said in a report released Friday. The Foundation adds that more than one million refugees were covered.

A Global Portal that offers a wealth of information on wild relatives of crops will be launched on May 20 in Bonn, Germany at the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.