Climate Change Archives

Eritrea: Managing Water Resources to Achieve Sustainable Food Security

May 23, 2017August 16, 2017TesfaNews21 Comments

BY ALEM FISSHATZION As Eritrea marks 26 years of Independence, I can’t help remembering Professor Abraham Kidane’s sober reflection last year of the country’s development policy progress during the first 25 years of independence in three magnificent essays.

Can Red Sea Corals Save the Worlds Reefs?

April 11, 2017TesfaNews11 Comments

The Red Sea contains some of the world’s hottest and saltiest seawater. BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN Hot water tolerant Red Sea corals could be the key to saving the worlds reefs. It will take an international effort to create the massive coral nurseries here in the Red Sea needed to begin to bring back to […]

A Story of Regeneration and Reforestation from Eritrea

April 7, 2017TesfaNews18 Comments

This is a story about how human intelligence and photosynthesis combined to create abundance and natural regeneration in a place where previously only sand, seawater and sunlight existed. BY NICK JEFFRIES The application and potential benefits of circular economy thinking have been widely described in the European context. What has been less commonly explored is […]

Ethiopian Dams, Plantations a Threat to Kenyans

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017TesfaNews20 Comments

By Human Rights Watch, Dropping water levels in Kenya’s Lake Turkana following the development of dams and plantations in Ethiopia’s lower Omo Valley threaten the livelihoods of half a million indigenous people in Ethiopia and Kenya, Human Rights Watch said today.

Study on Climate Change and Bumper Crop in Eritrea Hint to Higher Rainfall Levels

October 21, 2016October 21, 2016TesfaNews16 Comments

By CapEri, Eritrea is expecting a very good harvest due to above average rainfall in most parts of the country. The announcement was made by the country’s Minister of Agriculture, Arefaine Berhe, while marking World Food Day on 16 October 2016 in the Hamelmalo College of Agricul-ture under the theme “Climate is Changing Food and Agriculture […]

Eritrea Signed Historic Paris Climate Accord

April 23, 2016TesfaNews4 Comments

By TesfaNews, As many as 175 countries, including Eritrea, China and the US, signed the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday. Eritrea’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations, Ambassador Girma Asmerom signed the agreement on behalf of Eritrea representing President Isaias Afwerki.

Eritrea: Coping with Climate Change

March 6, 2016July 31, 2020TesfaNews25 Comments

By Fikrejesus Amahazion (PhD), According to the World Bank (WB), climate change, which will involve more droughts, floods, heatwaves, and other severe weather conditions, poses a great global threat, particularly to poor, vulnerable, marginalized populations, who are often hardest hit by its effects. Notably, multiple stressors, including the spread of HIV/AIDS, the implications of global […]

Irish Experts in Eritrea for Pioneering Dairy and Potato Programmes

April 16, 2015March 22, 2016TesfaNews3 Comments

By Teagasc, A senior delegation led by Irish NGO Vita and including Teagasc and Gorta/SHA is travelling to Eritrea at the weekend to build on the partnership between these agencies and the Eritrean Government. They will be evaluating the impact of a model dairy programme and a model potato programme set up last year. The […]