Title: Africa faces some serious environmental problems: Greenpeace | Globe Afrique - Africa and World News
Headings: Africa faces some serious environmental problems: Greenpeace
Africa faces some serious environmental problems: Greenpeace
Q and A: Najia Bounaim: Greenpeace
What does World Environment Day mean to the Greenpeace?
What problems would you like to highlight?
Climate change
Coal
Nuclear
Deforestation
Overfishing
Industrial agriculture
Is there anything you are going to do as an organization?
What can citizens do to preserve the environment?
Are government doing enough to preserve the environment?

Content: many more are on the verge. West African nations have some of the richest fishing grounds in the world; yet their food security is under threat. European and Asian fishing fleets have moved into West African waters over the past 30 years after depleting their own fish stocks. Sub-Saharan Africa is now the only region on Earth where per capita fish consumption is falling, partly because foreign fishing fleets have removed so much fish. Industrial agriculture
Industrial farming presents one of the most urgent threats to environmental sustainability and food security facing the world today. It relies on inputs of fossil-fuel intensive synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and genetically engineered (GE) seeds. These expensive inputs result in debt and economic insecurity for farmers, especially smallholders. This debt-driven agriculture is a big contributor to global climate change, and it destroys biodiversity, degrades soils, pollutes land, freshwater and coastlines, creates health risks from field to fork, and consolidates control over the food system amongst a handful of corporate giants. Those problems are aggravated by lack of financial resources, poor governance, corruption, significant illegal logging of natural resources and lack of local participation in environmental decision making processes.