Covid-19 has cast a long shadow over the global dialogue around food and nutrition security and has brought the relationship between public health, poverty, and hunger into the focus of attention. In addition to the pandemic, other threats to food and nutrition security are also great, from climate change and […]
Invasive evergreen trees acutely reduce water resources in Ethiopia costing rural livelihoods
The growing evergreen population diminishes water resources needed to irrigate cotton and sugarcane and the revenue generated therefrom is negatively impacted. This costs the livelihoods of local farmers and minimizes water availability to the townspeople. These trees consume excessive amounts and they do so all year round as they do not shed […]