Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
Monitoring resilience on the ground: BRACED Reality of Resilience
The Reality of Resilience project looks at what has worked - and what has not - to build resilience to climate extremes
Time short to protect Africa's food supply from climate change: study
Maize, beans and bananas are most at risk, researchers say, urging action to help farmers adapt
Innovation needed to turn on climate cash tap for the poor
Once communities start seeking their own solutions to climate change, governments and others get interested
A perfect storm is brewing - and we can prevent it
Better ways of pinning down disaster risks can help save lives, but getting that change in place is hard work
Drought-hit Kenyans ‘leave soil alone’ to reap higher yields – and profit
Zero tillage is helping Kenyan farmers reap higher yields and curbing climate change
Oxford lawns, New York air-conditioning, and a breath of fresh air
Finally, action to respond to disasters, prepare for them and build resilience against shocks are coming together
Forest dwellers turn paralegals to keep ancestral land
Locked out of their forest, Kenya's Ogiek community fights back
Kigali's poor bring rural self-help spirit to Rwanda's urban problems
How do you deal with garbage and other problems? In Rwanda, organise the community to solve them
Niger floods leave tens of thousands homeless as rebuilding lags
"If it rains again, we'll lose the entire village."