Africa is the continent most vulnerable to current climate variability and extremes and the one most likely to suffer adverse effects of climate change. Adaptation policies and actions will be most effective if based on the best possible knowledge concerning current and future climate. Policymakers need access to the best available science to effectively respond to local, national and regional challenges. Scientists need, also, feedback from policy makers and other users of scientific data and information to develop their research priorities and to respond to stakeholder needs.

http://www.climdev-africa.org/acc2013

Outdoor living in Africa and MENA regions can be integrated with eco-tourism. Innovation can still enrich and diversify this culture.

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The Middle East and North Africa “MENA” are important parts of the global food market. Food security and higher food prices are thought to be major factors in the region’s recent unrest. The MENA region is the largest wheat importer in the world, and wheat prices have doubled since 2005. With substantial and sustained increases in international prices of foods, coupled with a fast-growing domestic food demand, some MENA countries are facing growing fiscal and inflationary pressures. Most interesting, in all MENA countries, a decline in global food prices barely translates into a reduction in domestic food prices. What data shows us is that countries could reduce food price pressures considerably by tackling domestic issues, improving the targeting of subsidies and other food consumption and production policies.

http://menablog.worldbank.org/how-exposed-are-mena-households-global-food-price-increases

Troughout history, and since the ancient Egyptian civilization, architecture in the MENA region has been under major development both on the landscape scale and individual buildings. The limited space and arid conditions in the Gluf countries have inspired new innovative solutions to integrate the sea to land and to turn the burning desert to green land. http://www.constructiondigital.com/architectural_design/first-middle-east-and-north-africa-construction-expo-kicks-off-this-week

IKEA, world famous for its economic and practical furniture and household products, has introduced solar panels among its furniture and household products. Through cooperation with the Hong Kong Chinese based Hanergy, IKEA will be actively engaged in the ongoing global transformation to the sustainable use and production of renewable energy sources.

http://www.4-traders.com/news/IKEA-to-sell-solar-panels-from-all-UK-stores–17306513/

To bring about sustainable stability in the MENA region depends on achieving acceptable solutions for Israeli-Palestinian conflict. All existing instabilities and conflicts in the MENA region are related to the un-acceptable relations between Israel and Palestine. Since WW-II the conflict between Israel and Palestine has been causing an endless chain of conflicts, instabilities, strains and wars on several scales with engagement of major powers around the world. Such instabilities have, also, major feedbacks and negative impacts on world economy. International security, and thereby world trade, will considerably benefit from finding lasting solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/15/kerry-will-return-to-middle-east-to-push-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks/

The eight millennium development goals of the United Nations in Africa for 2015 involve help that can be of great value for building sustainable public services and public infrastructures for counteracting poverty, improve health, education, environment, gender conditions as well as global partnership developments. Public services and public infrastructures are essential underlaying components for any sustainable socio-economic developments in modern societies. Management of public service and infrastructures on large-scale and long-term bases is IMPERATIVE for political stability and they are typically funded through taxation and governmental resources. Further information on the UN Millennium Development Goals in Africa are given at:
http://www.undp.org/content/sierraleone/en/home/mdgoverview/

Strategic issues about African Energy and related information on all forms of energy, including renewables, can be followed at: http://www.africa-energy.com/

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WISA was officially formed in 1987, not as a body that had been spontaneously created at that time but as one that had evolved over more than half a century incurring several name changes en route.

The mission of WISA is to provide a forum for the exchange of information and views to improve water resource management in Southern Africa. Its objectives include inter alia ‘the promotion of and application of scientific and engineering knowledge and management skills in the planning, design, construction, maintenance, investigation, research and education in connection with the natural and controlled water cycle, including but not be limited to the application of scientific engineering and management skills to all or any of hydrology water resources, river management and flood alleviation, recreation, water supply and distribution, sewerage, sewage and industrial waste treatment, disposal and water pollution control.’

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