Smallholder farmers in West Africa's Sahel face a harsh and worsening climate. Rainfall is erratic, temperatures are rising, soils are degrading, and droughts have become more frequent.

Analysis - The Sahel, the semi-arid African region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, has become the epicentre of global terrorism, given the high number of ...

Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food ...

The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study conducted by University of Maryland researchers. This represents roughly an area the size of South Dakota being ...

The violence and challenges facing the region are not only due to the conflict, but are also tied to diminishing usable land and unpredictable water resources, Peter Maurer, president of the ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in partnership with the Federal Government of Nigeria, has launched the Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall Area ...

Lateef Olalekan Bello works as a Project Researcher at the University of Tokyo and was a former Research Fellow at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria, and the Sahel ...