Didi Akinyelure presented Living on the Edge on the BBC World Service, a radio series focused on the impact of climate change on communities around the world.
Living On The Edge: Didi's World Tour
Didi Akinyelure meets the innovators determined to maintain their traditional ways of life in the face of the worst that the climate can throw at them.
Living on the Edge: Sea Levels Rise
Award-winning journalist Didi Akinyelure visits her home city of Lagos to find out the latest solution to sea level rise in West Africa.
Living on the Edge: Encroaching Deserts
Didi Akinyelure travels to the Maowusu Desert to meet Yin Yuzhen and the local farmers and officials who see her work as an example to the rest of China, a nation threatened by encroaching deserts and land degradation. Didi also talks to the proponents of Africa’s Great Green Wall, designed to battle the march of the Sahara.
Living on the Edge: Glaciers
Didi Akinyelure visits the Swiss Alps where villagers are determined to save the glaciers that provide their groundwater and attract tourists. They have hired a scientist who plans to spray the glacier with artificial snow in order to deflect the heat of the summer sun.
Living on the Edge: Dams
Didi Akinyelure is in western Europe to find out why the countries that pioneered hydro-power are now turning their backs on it.
Is Journalism in Africa Threatened by Fake News?
How can journalists preserve audience trust in an era of social media and – some say – fake news? Do social media platforms have a responsibility to curb the spread of fake news? And can government censorship ever be the answer? The BBC’s Akwasi Sarpong and Didi Akinyelure debate the big questions with an audience in Malawi.
Business Daily: Africa's Social Entrepreneurs
Didi Akinyelure taps into the brains of some of the social entrepreneurs making a difference in Africa and brings you a battle between an MIT graduate and a Harvard business school graduate which ends with a potential funding offer for one of the social entrepreneurs.