How to Grow Food in Drought-Hit Zimbabwe? Add Irrigation
A project to build dams and irrigation systems to bring water to parched fields could protect at least some families against the more frequent droughts climate change is bringing in southern Africa. The Enhancing Nutrition, Stepping Up Resilience, and Enterprise program, a $55 million effort led by charity World Vision and funded by the USAID, aims to address some of the causes underlying chronic food security and malnutrition in Zimbabwe, where stunting rates among children are over 30%.
 
To Fight Water Insecurity, the UAE Takes to the Skies
The UAE National Center of Meteorology and Seismology has recently started experimenting with cloud seeding as an approach to solving water insecurity. Small aircraft fly into promising cloud areas and shoot small flares of chemical compounds into the clouds. These compounds encourage the condensation of water into droplets or ice crystals that will eventually become precipitation.
 
Cow to Stove: Why This Biogas Farm in Senegal Smells like Success
In Senegal, the drying effects of climate change on once farmable land are decreasing yields, driving the rural population into cities. At the same time, less than 15% of rural Senegalese have access to clean, safe energy, and are forced to rely on expensive propane and nonrenewables for light and cooking. However, a new biogas farm is tackling these two dilemmas—which affect more than 800,000 people in Senegal alone—with the help of the Senegalese government, the European Commission, and a few generous cows.
 
Global Standard to Measure Food Waste Aims to Put More on Plates
A new global standard for measuring food loss and waste will help countries and companies step up efforts to store, transport, and consume food more efficiently. The effort hopes to channel more food to the roughly 800 million people who are undernourished around the world, and cut emissions from the production of uneaten food, which account for about 8% of the total contributing to climate change.