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Abdoulaye Sarr

START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2007
Direction Meteorologie Nationale du Senegal, Senegal
Title: Investigating projected climate change over Sahel and impact studies on selected crops using a modeling approach

In West Africa, there is pronounced variability in interannual rainfall, especially in the northern part of the region (known as the Sahel), where the most severe and longest drought in modern times occurred during the last decades of the 20th Century. Because the main livelihood in the developing countries of the Sahel is dryland agriculture, [...]

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Emma T. Liwenga

START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2006
Institute of Resource Assessment, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Title: Research Protocols for Assessing the Impact of Climate Variability and Change in Rural Tanzania: Water, Food Systems, Vulnerability and Adaptation.

Climate variability and change have impacts on ecosystems, land use,  and the people’s livelihood, and thusexert an influence on the coping mechanisms of various communities. Most developing countries, and all of Africa,  are vulnerable to climate change impacts because of their exposure to extreme weather events and their dependence on natural resources. Understanding how people’s [...]

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Mark Zunckel

START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2005
CSIR, South Africa
Title: Understanding the relative risks posed to agricultural productivity by air pollution and drought across the southern African region

While the vulnerability of arable agriculture to drought is widely recognised across the southern African region, the vulnerability to air pollution impacts is poorly understood. Maize, a staple crop of the southern African region, has been shown to suffer significant yield losses on exposure to ground level ozone (O3). Since agriculture plays such an important [...]

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Nnadozie Okonkwo Nnoli

START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2005
Nigerian Meteorological Agency-NIMET, Nigeria
Title: Pilot Project to Strengthen the Nigerian Meteorological Agencies Capacity to Provide Reliable Rainfall Prediction for Use in Making Adaptive Agricultural Decisions

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) is the premier agency in Nigeria for providing meteorological and agro-climatological services to various sectors of Nigerian economy, especially for agriculture, which is one of the key sectors of Nigerian economy. Since 1999, NIMET has used an empirical-statistical physical model developed by Omotosho et al (2000) for the prediction of [...]

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Julius Francis

START Grants for GEC Research in Africa, 2005
WIOMSA, Tanzania
Title: Supporting African expert contributions to LOICZ II development at the IGBP/IHDP LOICZ II Inaugural Open Science Meeting 27-29 June 2005

Coastal zones play a key role in Earth System functioning, and they provide a significant contribution to life support systems. Anthropogenic forcing which modifies the hydrology and fluxes of material from river systems into the coastal zone, has increased in both scale and rate of change during recent centuries on a multiplicity of temporal and [...]

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