In a crowded banquet hall in Niamey, a dozen people gather around a large piece of paper, chatting excitedly in Hausa and French. They are a diverse...
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agriculture, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
GlobalBlog
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Face-to-face participatory processes, merging weather station observations with satellite data, and bridging the supply and demand side of climate...
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adaptation, agriculture, climate change integration, food security, infrastructure, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
Across the climate information services (CIS) sector, a number of topics are emerging at the forefront for new research and learning. These include...
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adaptation, agriculture, development donors, partnership, private-sector engagement, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa, Global
Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are responsible for managing 80 percent of the region’s farmland and contributing up to 90 percent of its...
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adaptation, agriculture, development donors, evaluation, Monitoring & Evaluation, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
In the Dagana district of Senegal, Moustapha Aminata walks out to his rice paddies and looks to the sky for signs of rain. In 2009, floods wiped out his crop, but now dry years seem to come around more frequently than ever and Moustapha worries about how he and his family will withstand another year of low yields.
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adaptation, agriculture, partnership, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
While public sector interest in climate information services (CIS) is concerned with resilience in the face of climate variability and change, the...
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adaptation, agriculture, governance, partnership, private-sector engagement, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
"Climate sensitive information needs to reach the right people for the appropriate decision that needs to be made...it is not just about useful...
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adaptation, agriculture, gender, governance, partnership, private-sector engagement, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
Africa is highly vulnerable to climate variability and climate change. When drought strikes and farmers are unprepared, food security and livelihoods...
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adaptation, agriculture, food security, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa
The Challenge Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, smallholder farmers are at the frontlines of an increasingly variable and changing climate. Frequent and...
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adaptation, agriculture, food security, poverty, resilience, weather & climate servicesGeography:
Africa