First-world financial and technical skills with home-grown know-how can help in the fight to ensure food and water security in sub-Saharan Africa.

Conservation NGOs can lead, lobby, facilitate or terminate social and political processes involving nature conservation.

Unless there is preparation and relationship building, SA will not shine on the world stage while hosting COP 17.

In the face of climate change, an alternate strategy for reducing emissions could be to build a responsible food culture.

That trees fall under two different departments illustrates the need for politics to embrace science.

The UN declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity to encourage action, but South Africa is lagging behind.