Africa-Up in Smoke? 2: The Second Report on Africa and Global Warming from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development

by John Magrath, Andrew Simms (With)

Overview

Too much or too little rain can be a matter of life or death in Africa. At different times and in different places across the continent, climate change threatens both. This briefing brings up-to-date the original report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development, Africa—Up in Smoke?, released in 2005.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904882176
Publisher:	Oxfam Publishing
Publication date:	12/28/2006
Series:	Up in Smoke? Series
Pages:	20
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.75(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

John Magrath is Programme Researcher at Oxfam.

Andrew Simms author of Tescopoly, is policy director at nef and a commentator on issues like climate change and 'clone town Britain'. His other publications include Why Good Lives Needn't Cost the Earth and Ecological Debt.

Table of Contents

Summary and recommendations; Drought, climatic variability and climate change in Africa; El Niño impacts; Promoting sustainable agriculture; Climate change and HIV/AIDS: the insidious links; Farming food or biofuel? Endnotes.