COP22 host Morocco launches action plan to fight devastating climate change

As UN climate talks start in Marrakech, Morocco calls on world leaders to put the focus on concrete plans for helping Africa’s small-scale farmers“Last December we had temperatures of 25C. Normally it is 1 or 2C at that time of year,” says Mohammed Ibrahimi, a farmer with one hectare of apple trees in Boumia, a village near Midelt in Morocco.“These trees need at least 1,200 hours of near-freezing temperatures in the winter to help them to regenerate. This year they flower