Fighting climate change and famine with forests in the Horn of Africa

Right now, 17 million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of starvation. Massive crop failures, due to lack of rainfall, have led to a problem so dire that senior United Nations officials called this the worst humanitarian crisis they have faced. But they should have seen this coming: the region has experienced dry spells for the …

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Trump’s UNFPA Aid Cuts Will Deepen Poverty

U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order to cut fundingto the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which distributes aid to organizations providing reproductive health services. The move will have drastic implications for generations to come, particularly in Africa, where population growth is much greater than in the rest of the world. Undercutting successful family planning programs …

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