Enviroscope

Structural planning for urban centres to prevent flooding involves a combination of green infrastructure, robust conventional infrastructure, and smart land-use planning to manage stormwater runoff and protect against flood impacts. Key strategies include creating sponge cities that absorb and retain…

As the world grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change and deforestation, technology emerges as a powerful ally in the global effort to restore and sustain our planet’s green cover. Scientists, farmers and stakeholders in the agricultural sector have…

Food security, as defined by the World Food Summit, 1996, exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and preferences for an active and healthy…

The ocean is fundamental to life on our planet and our future. The ocean is an important source of the planet’s biodiversity and is vital in the climate system and water cycle. It provides a range of ecosystem services, supplies…

Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world’s oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic Pollution is a global problem. Every year, 19 – 23 million tonnes of plastic waste leak into aquatic ecosystems,…

Forests cover 31% of the world’s land surface and are crucial for planetary well-being. They help mitigate climate change and are home to most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. They improve soil, air, and water quality, services we are at…

This edition, Managing Farmers’ Expectations In 2025 Crop Season, follows the last episode of Enviroscope, which investigated the readiness for the rainy season in the Sahel. The 2025 cropping season for farmers should be another promising cultivation and harvest period…

The 2025 Forum on Seasonal Forecasts for the Sudanian and Sahelian Zones of West Africa concluded on April 25 in Bamako the Malian capital. The event was organized by the Regional Climate Center for West Africa and the Sahel in…

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009. The Day recognises the Earth and its ecosystems as humanity’s common home and the need to protect them to enhance people’s…

The Ghanaian government recently launched an ambitious initiative called the Feed Ghana Programme. It aims to transform Ghana’s agricultural sector by boosting local production and reducing its heavy reliance on food imports. Through this strategic initiative, the government intends to…

Several environmental characteristics have marked the relationship between farming and climate change. As the planet’s temperature rises, global warming’s impacts become more serious. Thus, agriculture faces a scenario of drought, flooding and increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather phenomena. A…

Have you heard of ECO jogging? This is an environmental sporting initiative that brings together young environmentalists from select countries in the Sahel, including Chad, Guinea, Benin, and Togo, as well as France, to clear the environment of waste. These…