Soaring investment in infrastructure, mining and agribusiness is spreading to Africa, where a lack of legislation on land rights means local communities are regularly bypassed, fuelling anger and resentment
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CLIMATE CHANGE WILL IMPACT US ALL
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One Planet, One Environment, One Humanity. Human-Caused Climate Change Should Be A Wake-up Call to Us All. We need a healthy, balanced natural world for the survival of all species. To the degree our planet is sick and out of balance so are we. We must return to our deep interconnection with Nature for our own health and survival to nutture and revive the harm we humans have wrought. Nature First.
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The forests in Africa absorb over 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually. With these diverse and natural forests, grasslands and prairie lands disappearing under investment schemes and the development of monoculture plantations for supposed "green" energy alternatives like agrofuels, not much else remains to absorb the shocks of hunger and climate change. 
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Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa Some 15 million Africans abandon the countryside every year in pursuit of better lives in the city. Climate change and further desertification will only exacerbate that trend. How will these ballooning urban populations survive? The best strategy, they're finding, is to begin sowing seeds right where they are.
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