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Video shows on Climatic Change Implications posted on June 28, 2010 - 11:50pm
The Nile Question posted on May 23, 2010 - 6:03pm
The ownership, use, and even identity with the Nile River shoulder a big debate. There now exist queries difficult to answer. What is important though is that some riparian countries regard the river as their life blood. But the situation is changing. Climate change and increasing demand for agricultural and industrial products and services implies that reliance on the river is rapidly changing face. The situation is not helped by land degradation. The Nile is no longer “that longest river” cutting across many sub-Sahara African countries. Water is becoming as good as oil, if not more than oil. It is life and river Nile is the storeroom to many countries. Controversies and Other Developments
An Avoidable Eventuality and the Peak of Land Degradation It’s “a great tragedy that should make the country re-think the practices that interfere with God’s natural engineering…God knew what he was doing when he said this is a mountain, a swamp, a flood plain, river, etc. Therefore, practices that go against God and nature are dangerous as has been demonstrated by this tragedy” H.E: Yoweri Museveni’s stressed at his tour of a landslide hit Bududa district in Eastern Uganda. President Museveni visits the disaster area
Land Use Conflicts: A case in Kenya posted on December 18, 2009 - 6:01pm
Access to land remains one of the most impeding factor to the effective environmental and social economic stability. In the Kwanza district of Kenya, scrumble for access to the grazing land has become a case for a showdown between the two communities in one village. It is probably one of the worst case scenarios in the area's recent history. The evolution of the conflict from latent to exposed stages of development with no adquate intervening measures means that land use remains a contentious issue that pits individuals and communities against each other.
Climate Change: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities posted on December 16, 2009 - 5:16pm
14th Dec. 2009 was greeted with an astounding presentation by the S. Korea's Minister of Environment on the country's bold steps towards Green Growth, at the Technical University of Munich. As one of the emerging developed countries but also a bridge between the developing and Developed worlds the country has pronounced itself as a major actor in fighting for environmentally sound economic development. Before a largely international gathering of students, lecturers and Professors, the minister demonstrated his country's dream in the short, medium and long term.
The Climate Challenge: Constrained Progress posted on December 12, 2009 - 1:51am
Climate Change: Does it really matter? That the Earth is warming is a gospel truth. The disturbing reality quickly demonstrates how the poor nations are yet to add more problems to their existing list of burdening food insecurity, land degradation and disturbing poverty. Atmospheric GHG Concentrations & Global Surface Temperature Trends
Is Land Based Genocide Possible in Uganda? posted on August 12, 2009 - 3:43am
Can the Bunyoro Land Issue Cause Genocide?
Today's Major world Crises posted on November 28, 2008 - 10:30pm
Everything points to our Land. Peace and harmony, life and prosperity will follow if we understood that land is a gift. With all the natural riches, and beauty, our land needs more than we have done. The best preachers, the worst terrorists, the most humble and lofty all have a place on land. We therefore fight, negotiate and sometimes compromise to fit. At the Inter-Faith Climate Summit on 28-29th Nov. 2008 in Uppsala Swedden, it became globally evident of how important and multi-discplinary Environmental/Land management can be. The effects of environmentally unsound land use practices are as important for our attention as our desire to prosper.
ACCESS TO LAND; Today’s living challenge posted on November 28, 2008 - 10:03pm
Abstract Access to land is defined by different land tenure systems in any given jurisdiction or social setting. The institution of land tenure plays a fundamental role in defining the manner in which individuals or groups of individuals secure access to land and most importantly determines the manner and/or type of use to which land is put. This way land users on the basis of rights addressed under the different tenure systems and with varying degrees of tenure security (temporal and permanent) use land resources (mineral resources, water, soils, pastures, trees, etc.) sustainably or abusively. This broadly influences poverty eradication programs and planning approaches for both rural and urban development processes as well as natural resources management.
Biodiversity: Vitality, Loss and conservation posted on November 14, 2008 - 4:52pm
Diversity:A Scientific And Political OverviewIn the vastness of Creation, among 50 billion galaxies of 50 billion stars, our home--the Earth--is the only place we know of where life exists. We know that all this life has a fundamental unity, that the wisest scholar, the loftiest tree, the swiftest bird and the humblest bacterium all share an ancient, common origin. We know that from this basic unity has sprung a dazzling diversity of millions of living species. Our living planet is, indeed, a miracle, and knowing this can fill us with awe and reverence for Creation and the Creator.