by pennyurquhart | Mar 27, 2014 | 5 questions on climate change series, adaptation, Africa, climate change, climate change and health, climate change policy, climate justice, culture, food security and climate change
This is the second in a series of “5 questions” blogs in which I explore the same five key questions with climate change thought leaders. In the interviews, we take a look at recent significant developments in the climate change arena, focus on what global leaders as...
by pennyurquhart | Feb 13, 2014 | Africa, Travel writing
During the height of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation in late 2007, I spent a working week talking to people about trends in ecosystem services and poverty in Harare, the capital. The shops were bare and you needed great big bricks of Zim dollars to buy anything. I...
by pennyurquhart | Jun 17, 2013 | Africa, McGregor
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wellcomeimages/7822307470/ We are close to the longest night in the southern hemisphere, and yet mosquitoes still rise in unexpected numbers when I enter the courtyard off my bathroom in the morning. Not enough to disturb me in my...
by pennyurquhart | Apr 25, 2013 | Africa, climate change policy, community-based adaptation
“Livestock are dying from drought in the north, while it is flooding elsewhere in the country”. So spoke one of the participants at a recent workshop on climate change in Windhoek. Namibians have managed very well over the centuries with their highly variable climate....
by pennyurquhart | Nov 28, 2011 | Africa, climate justice, environment
The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference – COP17 this time around – starts today, and Durban is already bursting at the seams. Mainstream accommodation is long since claimed, and one small guest house has had over 200 enquiries for two days in...
