THIS WEEK'S TOPIC OF DISCUSSION:
Maintaining Sustainable Ecosystem in Africa
PLEASE JOIN THIS WEEK'S DISCUSSION LIVE BY PHONE AND SKYPE
WHEN: SUNDAY November 13th, 2011
TIME: 1: 00 PM-2: 00 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME (Calculate your time zone here)
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HOST: Ernest Kwabena Opong (Publisher of Amandla News)
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ABOUT GREEN AFRICA
One of Africa's biggest challenges is the need to develop environmentally sustainable ways of living for its people. Green Africa is a weekly environmental discussion on AV radio, created to help mobilize a fresh understanding of Africa's responsibilities in the universal ecosystem and generate consensus for right action. The program is organized and represented by a wide range of grassroots organizations and experts on a diverse scientific, social, and economics of green politics and environmental issues. Topics are centered around sustainable management of resources and stewardship of the environment through advocacies on changes in public policies and individual behavior in recognition of humanity, ecosystems, ecology, health, and human rights.
The show is brought to you by Amandla News and African Views (AV).
Host: Ernest K. Opong
Quality control: William A. Verdone
Contributor: Wasiu Alade
Contributor: Emekop Ebuk
Contributor: Emanuel Marfo
Producer and Director: Wale Idris Ajibade
TOPIC'S BACKGROUND:
Our society benefits from a multitude of nature's blessings grounded upon biodiversity, known as ecosystem services. Sadly, however, over the last 50 years this biodiversity has been lost at an unprecedented pace. In Africa what used to lush tropical forest is gradually losing out to the aridity of the savannah and the desert. Unfortunately, desertification goes with desiccation of the land: rainfall reduces where the forest gives way to the grassland and so the land or the soil loses its fertility. The loss of the land's fertility means the reduction in food production in a world whose population is increasing at a pace not commensurate with the production of food to sustain it. Several attempts are being made by governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and corporations to restore the environment.
This episode examines the attempts at restoring the environment's biodiversity. The administrative factors, replanting and other methods needed to restore the ecosystem would be discussed with the experts and guests invited to today's program.
AFRICAN VIEWS
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