Egypt and Kenya's 'green' decisions -
If actions speak louder than words, what are Kenya and Egypt trying to say in the run-up to COP27?has reversed a ban on the controversial shamba system
– a schema that allows farmers to tend to tree saplings on state-owned forest land in return for growing food crops until the trees mature and form a canopy.but is favoured as a way to boost food production. And as Jeff Otieno reports, environmentalists have warned “that the gains made in increasing the forest cover – one of the lowest in the East African region – will be reversed further exposing the country to adverse effects of climate change.”
Over in Egypt, it’s a different scenario. Far away from the forests of Kenya, the North African nation is surrounded by dry, arid lands. So when a neighbourhood – in this case an entire island off the capital in the Nile – is green, many wonderWith less than a month before the big Climate Change conference, will governments get their green priorities in order?