A recent Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) webinar explored how scientists can deepen their understanding of African climate processes. Dr Rachel James discussed how scientists can improve climate modeling by ground-truthing their data and assumptions better, with local sources of climate knowledge. [more]…
Paper develops a nuanced understanding of food security and adaptive behaviors to current challenges to food security at the household level with a distinct focus on inter- and intra-family behavioral dynamics in rural, southern Mali.
Many national policies and international agreements include goals to protect ecosystem services. This guidebook helps readers to assess how ecosystem service models could support policy-making in their countries and is based on practical experiences in sub-Saharan Africa.
Climate modelling is a key tool in tackling the effects of climate change. A new guide from the Future Climate for Africa programme explains how countries can use climate models appropriately - and how to avoid some common pitfalls in interpretation. [more]…
Jon Padgam explains the challenges and opportunities for linking climate information with user needs in Africa. [more]…
Juliane Nier and Susannah Fitzherbert-Brockholes of CDKN report on how businesses in India and Uganda are learning from each other about the scale-up of decentralised renewable energy technologies. [more]…
Anuradha Adhikari of ICLEI South Asia describes how the pilot installation of ‘reverse vending machines’ for plastic in a South Indian city is providing multiple environmental and community benefits. [more]…
The four-year UMFULA research project has made substantial advances in understanding the current and future climate of central and southern Africa. Declan Conway of the Grantham Research Institute discusses how critical it is to know how climate risk may affect major infrastructural investments being planned and implemented in the region. [more]…
Global climate models (GCMs) are the most widely used method to understand future climate change. A new guide from the Future Climate for Africa Programme explains how to interpret GCM [more]…
This policy brief explores the relationship between climate change and post-harvest losses and assesses the use of post-harvest technologies in general to mitigate climate risks, with a focus on HSTs. [more]…
