July 31, 2018
The Symposium on the Impacts of Climate Change on Lake Victoria will take place on December 3-4, 2018 in Kampala, Uganda. Its goal is to gather and promote information on climate change initiatives by African and non-African organisations and scientists undertaking…
July 25, 2018
By Prosper Adiku, Rahinatu Sidiki Alare and Wendy Boakye On May 13-16 2018, the winners of the Climate Change Adaptation Through Youth Innovation (CATYI) competition paid a visit to the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS) of the University of…
July 18, 2018
Recordings, interviews and photos from Adaption Futures 2018 are now available for online viewing and circulation on the Adaptation Futures website. Plenary 2: Resourcing Adaption, features START’s own Executive Director, Cheikh Mbow, as a panelist.
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July 18, 2018
The Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA), with funding from the Government of Sweden, is implementing a four-year Cities and Coasts (C&C) Project (2018-2021), whose main objectives are to improve scientific knowledge and to stimulate research directed at underpinning…
July 05, 2018
Taking place in May 2019 in Montpellier, France, the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry aims at contributing to the progress of agroforestry science and practice in order to bridge the science-policy gap. The major topics that will be discussed include:…
June 26, 2018
By Alice McClure, University of Cape Town and Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town It’s difficult as an individual, a group or a nation to know how to act when faced with climate change problems. As with other global environmental…
June 25, 2018
By Anna Taylor, University of Cape Town Cape Town’s “Day Zero” experience – the prospect of dam levels dropping dangerously low, taps running dry and water rations being distributed from public collection points – speaks powerfully to the urgency and…
Call for applications: International Training Workshop on Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction
June 21, 2018
The International Training Workshop on Big Earth Data for Disaster Risk Reduction will provide a scientific and practical guide on disasker risk reduction to participants from developing countries along Belt and Road. The event will take place in Beijing, China, during October…
June 20, 2018
Seedbeds of Transformation: The Role of Science with Society and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Africa brought together over 300 researchers, practitioners, industry leaders, policy makers, and others to discuss tensions and opportunities towards sustainability in Africa. The event was hosted…
June 19, 2018
The Southern Africa Fire Network (SAFNet) of the Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Dynamics (GOFC-GOLD) program held its tenth meeting in Skukuza at the Kruger National Park, South Africa, in April 2018. During the meeting, 27 delegates from…