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Erb Street might as well be planets away from the encroaching malaria, shrinking rivers and vanishing cattle lands of Uganda.
But under a project unveiled at a think tank on Erb Street yesterday, African researchers will soon get millions of Canadian dollars to help them better understand how a changing climate is affecting their land, food, and health.
Signs of climate change are everywhere on the planet's poorest continent -- increasing droughts, rising temperatures and changing animal migration patterns.
But African governments have been slow to recognize the climate's link to those problems, said Nelson Sewankambo, who will lead the …
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