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The Pan-Asia Risk Reduction (PARR) Fellowship Program, completed in October 2017, connected researchers, experts and practitioners from seven Asia-Pacific countries, creating a network of people and institutions capable of developing and implementing innovative approaches to disaster risk reduction. On October…

START is managing three grants aimed at developing a city-region knowledge base and a practitioner network to support co-production of climate risk narratives in Africa. The Chinhoyi University of Technology (Zimbabwe), the  Polytechnic, University of Malawi and the University of…

The Belmont Forum and START organized a panel discussion on “Funding Science for a Pollution-free World: How Africa Can Close the Science-Funding Gap”  as part of the UN  Global Science-Policy-Business Forum at the UN Environment Assembly on December 2 in…

Future Earth is seeking nominations for members to join the Steering Committee of this research collaboration. Terms will begin in February 2018, and the deadline for nominations is 20 January 2018. Knowledge-Action Networks are networks of people and organisations collaborating…

On November 15 and 16, 2017 Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) West Africa team members from Mali and Ghana participated in a workshop at the Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra…

Together with Future Earth, the South African Department of Science and Technology, the National Research Foundation of South Africa, START is pleased to announce an upcoming conference focusing on sustainability in Africa. The Seedbeds of Transformation: the role of science…

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of developing a Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), which is scheduled for completion in August 2019. IPCC Working Group III (Mitigation), which is managing the production…

“The impact on some of the world’s most dramatic changes like deforestation and climate change are in Africa and Asia. It is indispensable to collect context specific knowledge from local capacities to ensure adequate and long-term sustainable solutions to address…

The key to a great dinner party is having both the right mix of people and the right seating arrangement at the table. If you pull this off, and add in an engaged host, you will enjoy a stimulating evening…

FCFA is pleased to announce that the gap filling fund call is now live. The guidance document and application form can be found here. The gap filling fund, aims to support small projects led by early career researchers with a maximum project size…