Women coffee growers speak to Martha Nyambura about the impact of climate change on their production.

Stakeholders in agriculture from Western and Central Africa are meeting in Gabon for the 6th International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) regional forum. As Zukiswa Zimela reports, they are talking about the challenges facing smallholder farmers.
 

The South African Development Community says states need to protect their forrests as a region. SADC is preparing to put their case before COP 17 in Durban later this month. Zukiswa Zimela reports from the SADC headquarters in Botswana.

The head of SADCs gender unit,
Magdeline Mathiba-Madibela, says climate change affects women in Southern Africa and their plight must be discussed at COP 17 in Durban later this month. Zukiswa Zimela interviews Mathiba-Madibela in Gaborone and asked her what is needed to protect women against climate change.

The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions, SACAU, says the COP17 discussions in Durban later this month is an opportunity to put agriculture on the climate change map. Tinus de Jager asked Ishmael Sunga, the confederation CEO, what they are pushing for at the end of November.

- Nicaragua: “Las mujeres queremos ser escuchadas”.

- México: Ellas no están en venta.

- Guatemala: “Queremos niñas visibles e inevitables”

- Mujeres rurales argentinas se hacen oír sobre cambio climático.
- México: Las mujeres quedan fuera de plan forestal.
- Jamaiquinas buscan salvarse de la crisis del café.

- Perú: Regidoras luchan en la tierra de glaciares derretidos.
- Carga sobrehumana pesa sobre las mujeres somalíes.
- Nepalesas siembran un futuro mejor.
 

- Pescadoras mexicanas a la captura del cambio climático.
- Mujeres brasileñas remontan el impacto de las inundaciones.
- Contaminar se conjuga en masculino.