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Olufunke Olubusayo Faboye
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University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Title: Evaluation of Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Climate, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems in South-Western Nigeria
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University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Title: Evaluation of Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Climate, Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems in South-Western Nigeria
The process of deforestation releases CO2 to the atmosphere. Once the forest is gone, the lost trees no longer serve as a carbon sink. The potential for anthropegenic climate change increases as more of Africa’s forests are removed to serve the needs of a growing human population. This study documents carbon stock in three [...]
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Aliou Mamadou Dia
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Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Title: Adapting to Climate Variability in the Senegal River Basin in West Africa
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Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
Title: Adapting to Climate Variability in the Senegal River Basin in West Africa
The inhabitants of the old river town of Saint Louis in Senegal have been adapting and coping with periodic flooding during its entire several hundred year existence. Although Saint Louis has always reaped substantial benefits from the river flooding, a recent combination of factors including: 1) increasing population density, 2) subsidence of the old [...]
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Tanga Pierre Zoungrana
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Université de Ouagadougou, UFR Sciences humaines, Burkina Faso
Title: Grands aménagements hydrauliques et sécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso. Cas du barrage de Bagré
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Université de Ouagadougou, UFR Sciences humaines, Burkina Faso
Title: Grands aménagements hydrauliques et sécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso. Cas du barrage de Bagré
The Bagre dam was completed in 1992 in Southeast Burkina to create the largest reservoir in the country. The dam was built in response to a need in this semi-arid region to stabilize fishing and food production, as well as to produce energy. By 1998, both fishing and agricultural activities were developed.
One of the stated [...]
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Gelas Muse Simiyu
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School of Environmental Studies, Moi University, Kenya
Title: Greenhouse Gases, methane and carbon dioxide and the diminishing water resources in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya
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School of Environmental Studies, Moi University, Kenya
Title: Greenhouse Gases, methane and carbon dioxide and the diminishing water resources in Lake Victoria basin, Kenya
Most of the Nzoia River watershed (more than 60%) has been deforested and is continuously under crops. This has lead to high soil erosion and transport of sediment and nutrients to the water bodies including Lake Victoria. Land cover changes have the potential to change the natural ecology, including climatic factors and water resources. Water-to-atmosphere [...]
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Geoffrey Chavula
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University of Minnesota and University of Malawi (The Polytechnic), Malawi
Title: Development of Remote Sensing Tools to Improve Understanding and Management of Lake Malawi and other African Rift Valley Lakes
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University of Minnesota and University of Malawi (The Polytechnic), Malawi
Title: Development of Remote Sensing Tools to Improve Understanding and Management of Lake Malawi and other African Rift Valley Lakes
Lake Malawi, popularly known for its rich biological diversity, is the third largest lake in the African Great Lakes system. Containing the largest number of freshwater fish species in the world, it is declared the World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The degradation of land resources in the drainage basin of Lake Malawi and other African [...]
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Abel Lufafa
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Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Uganda
Title: Land Use and Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial C Stocks in Uganda
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Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Makerere University, Uganda
Title: Land Use and Climate Change Effects on Terrestrial C Stocks in Uganda
Dynamics of carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems are a major factor regulating atmospheric CO2 concentration. In Uganda, as well as in other African countries, there is a scarcity of reliable field measurements of C stocks residing in important and representative ecological zones. This lack of information reduces the ability to determine how changes in land [...]
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Raymond S. Lumbuenamo
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University of Kinshasa, Congo
Title: Assessment of Land cover degradation following forest harvesting in the Mai-Ndombe and the Lisala Region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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University of Kinshasa, Congo
Title: Assessment of Land cover degradation following forest harvesting in the Mai-Ndombe and the Lisala Region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Deforestation analysts have tried to address issues related to loss of biomass due to agriculture expansion in the tropics. However, forest logging in most of the countries in the region has received little or no attention. Timber extraction creates small clearing inside the forest, which can hardly be detected from most commercial and low-resolution satellites [...]
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O. Vincent Madadi
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Department of Chemistry, Nairobi University, Kenya
Title: Mitigating Phosphorus Load into Lake Victoria Catchment
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Department of Chemistry, Nairobi University, Kenya
Title: Mitigating Phosphorus Load into Lake Victoria Catchment
Lake Victoria is the world’s second largest freshwater lake by surface area. stretching 412 km from north to south and 355 km from west to east. The lake is shared among three riparian countries: Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. The main issues in the Lake Victoria Basin include: 1) water quality and quantity concerns, 2) water [...]
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Mohamed S. Mhita
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Tanzania Meteorological Agency, Tanzania
Title: Proposed workshop to address issues relating to the Prediction and Predictability of East and Southern Africa Climate, February 2006, in Tanzania
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Tanzania Meteorological Agency, Tanzania
Title: Proposed workshop to address issues relating to the Prediction and Predictability of East and Southern Africa Climate, February 2006, in Tanzania
The VACS Southern and Eastern African Climate Predictability Workshop was held in Dar-es-Salaam Tanzania on 10th-13th of July, 2006. The workshop was entitled “Predictability and Prediction of southern and eastern African climate variability and impacts of the neighboring oceans”.
The target audience of the Workshop was senior operational staff responsible for long range forecasting at national [...]
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Philippa Huntsman-Mapila
START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2005
University of Botswana, Botswana
Title: Palaeo-environmental reconstruction of Lake Ngami Basin, Botswana
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University of Botswana, Botswana
Title: Palaeo-environmental reconstruction of Lake Ngami Basin, Botswana
Lake Ngami is an endorheic lake (closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other bodies of water such as rivers or oceans) in Botswana north of the Kalahari Desert. It is one of three sub-basins associated with the through-flow of water in a large structural depression referred to as the Makgadikgadi-Okavango-Zambezi [...]
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