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                                 Climate Change, For Better or Worse! Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, its common sense — Ronald Regan      Africa has few industries as compared to the western world, but that doesn’t change the effect of climate change. It seems like Africa will receive a higher dose. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) states that “ Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to global warming. This situation is made worse by Africa's low capacity to adapt to climate change. Poor access to loans, markets, technology, machinery, and the likes make Africa more vulnerable to climate change. A variety of disasters and conflicts already plague the region, including wars, over-grazing and other forms of ecosystem degradation, and AIDS. ” The climate is a very important aspect of the avera...
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Climate Change in Africa                             I live in Nigeria, West Africa and I have observe the change in rain, harmattan and dry seasons, as years pass, I notices some inconsistences in weather in northern Nigeria, Kaduna State precisely. And now as I develop this interest in agriculture, I have come to realize that the weather is a very important factor of food production and even food security as a whole here in Africa, because a high percentage of food producers"farmers" depend on the natural weather distribution (e.g rainfall) for productions .  So what is climate/weather change? Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic erup...
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PLANTS OF AFRICA                                                                                                                                                             African Eggplant While there are m...