Climate change could drive women’s empowerment, says Stephanie Midgley.

 

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Despite early warnings about higher-than-usual flooding of the Okavango Delta in 2010, homes, fields, latrines and boreholes in the delta were flooded.

 

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To get community buy-in to protect woodlands, conservationists have teamed up with a herbalist, who as a leader in his community, acts as a role model, convincing other residents to change their ways.

Ninety percent of Malawi’s agriculture is rain-fed but government is now pushing for more diversification into irrigation farming which allows farmers to grow crops even in the dry season and allows for additional harvests.

Moses Magadza investigates Namibia’s groundwater potential.

 

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Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers who don’t have access to irrigation extremely difficult.

The model of agriculture applied by the People’s Republic of China during the last 30 years is an example that the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa should follow .

South Africa’s small-scale farmers may be paying a high price for the persisting idea of the country’s exceptionalism.

Across Southern Africa, a changing climate will prompt changes in how herders manage finding forage for their animals.