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 Climate-change experts from around the world meet this month at the 4th International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in Dar es Salaam , Tanzania to share the latest knowledge about how communities can reduce their vulnerability, and how government policies can help make this happen. 

A revolutionary yeast-based approach for the treatment of malaria has posted a positive effect against the disease that continues to cause untold suffering and deaths to millions of children under the age of five years and pregnant mothers, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia.

A study recently conducted by the National Nutrition Centre of Egypt states that 48.5% of Egyptian women and 16.7% of Egyptians over 20 are obese. As many as 35% of the population has a BMI over 30, and are therefore considered obese. The various surveys conducted in Egypt underline the main nutritional problem and raise the growing trend of obesity among adults.

The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity has said renewing agricultural diversity of crops and livestock backed by a functional natural support system is the best long-term solution to meet the global food challenge.

The government of Japan has announced Wednesday Prof Miriam Were as Africa Price joint winner of the inaugural Hideyo Noguchi.

There was outrage Wednesday as Botswana’s High Court denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water.