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The Namaqua veld. File photo
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

The silent threat: Degrading veld endangers global food and ecosystems

South Africa’s rangeland, vital for livelihoods and ecosystems, faces severe deterioration from climate change and overuse

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Stability in Kenya hinges on a just, equitable distribution of resources, and a commitment to progress human development for the marginalised. (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images)
COVID 19

Pockets of instability in Kenya are underpinned by unequal development

Stability in Kenya hinges on a just, equitable distribution of resources, and a commitment to progress human development for the marginalised

  • Jaynisha Patel
  • Moses Onyango
5 min read
Eating into land: Only 12% of the earth’s rangelands are protected and industrial-scale farmers as well as pastoralists such as these from Nigeria are causing these areas to shrink. Photo: Luis Tato/AFP
AFRICAN SAVANNAS

First-of-its-kind rangeland atlas pushes for protection

Rangelands are ‘nature’s gift to humanity’, but have been overlooked, neglected

  • Sheree Bega
3 min read
Shrinkage: In the past Sudanese pastoralists from the highlands moved to the lowlands during the dry season so that their animals were close to grazing land. But civil war and climate change has resulted in encroachment on cultivated land. Photos: Stefanie Glinski/AFP
CATTLE

Conflict until the cows come home

Climate change and civil war are escalating tensions between South Sudan’s herders and crop farmers, who are competing over land

  • David Mono Danga
6 min read