Welcome to the new NECJOGHA.org

Welcome to NECJOGHA.org, the new Internet home of the Network of Climate Journalists of the Greater Horn of Africa.

Using this state-of-the-art, community-based site, climate journalists, scientists and experts in the GHA will be able to share information and ideas. All registered users will have access to features such as:

Nigerian Conservation Foundation developing carbon studies

As part of global mitigation strategies to reduce the impact of climate change, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) is current developing carbon studies (trade, sequestration) in Nigeria. The pilot study is located in one of NCF’s project sites, Lekki Conservation Centre, Lagos State.

Food Summit : Some progress but more needs to be done

The UN food summit closes with a strong statement on agriculture, but fails to adequately address trade, biofuels, safety nets, and implementation

By Joachim von Braun
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

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Scientists Link Upsurge in Fatal Malaria To Temperature Rise

Malaria studies in East Africa’s highland areas show increasing incidents of fatal malaria in areas previously free of the killer disease. A team of scientists in Kenya around the Lake Victoria basin highlands, based in Kisumu is collaborating with climate scientists to feed into existing malaria preventive programs.

Food Security Maps For Planning

Climate forecast modeling can now be used to develop Food Outlook models in East Africa. These food models are now used to develop future food maps (pre-rain season) that can help in mitigation planning therefore enabling timely food interventions. This development will enable scientific modeling to forecast severity of drought and famine in East African countries.

OPINION: The Media, Climate and Society-The African Story

By Patrick Luganda
NECJOGHA Secretariat Kampala

Climate Experts Tackle Forest Fire Threats Under Changing Climate

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION-IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE

GENEVA/EDMONTON, 14 JULY 2008 (WMO) – An international workshop is being held from 14 to 16 July 2008 in Edmonton (Canada) with the aim of improving operational weather systems for fire danger rating that should help tackle the growing threat of forest fires worldwide.

Health Reporting Competition

Subject: ECOHEALTH COMPETITION
Dear Friend Science Journalist:
The World Federation of Science Journalists - in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) announces a competition offering journalists the chance to interview the top world’s experts on health and the environment, in Merida (Mexico), 1 – 5 December 2008

You could find information on that competition on our web site www.wfsj.org

Book Review: Six Degrees By Journalist Mark Lynas'

By Henry Lutaaya
Editor Sunrise Newspaper, Uganda
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Rilla Norslund, the head of DANIDA's Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS) in Uganda, recently found her child crying in the bedroom. As Rilla narrated to an audience of scientists and Journalists at the recent Open forum on Biotechnology in Africa, her child was angered by the fact that millions of people continue to live recklessly and in complete disregard of dire warnings about the future of their planet.