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Testing Climate Models for Agricultural Impacts

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Recent Trends, Current Projections, Crop-Climate Suitability, and Prospects for Improved Climate Model Information. Good climate projections for agriculture can help guide investments in risk management and adaptation. New reports offer insights into the reliability of future climate projections for agriculture, and show how to make the most of current data. Read more about the studies [...]

Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture

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Growth with Resilience: Opportunities in African Agriculture- A Montpellier Panel Report

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Our Vision We, the members of the Montpellier Panel, believe investment in resilient agricultural growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) can achieve sustainable food and nutrition security for the continent and significantly contribute to the African and global economy. As we argued in our 2010 report: • Food security underpins global security; • Food trade is [...]

Australia — Visiting fellowships in climate adaptation

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VCCCAR 2012 Visiting Research Fellow Background The Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research (VCCCAR) was established to improve State Government decision‐making on the likely impacts of climate change, to evaluate adaptation options, to contribute to the building of regional adaptive capacity, and to facilitate the integration of climate change considerations across Government policy and [...]

Climate Change Impacts on Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Tanzania: Negative Impact of Climate Change Worries Residents on Pemba Islands

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By: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam) Zanzibar — ANXIETY about circumstantial eviction is growing among more than six thousand people living on Kisiwapanza Island, one of the inhabited islands in Pemba due to rising sea level. They now fear they may in the near future be forced to leave their beloved homes for safety. [...]

Nile Basin states appeal to UN over failure to access climate funds

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By WALTER MENYA: The East African Ten African countries have appealed to the United Nations, funding agencies and the developed nations to eliminate bottlenecks to access to climate change adaptation funds. Convening in Kigali, Rwanda for the 3rd Nile Basin Development Forum from October 26 to 28, ministers in charge of water resources from the [...]

Call for common strategy at climate change meeting

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By Alex Bitekeye :The Citizen Reporter Dar es Salaam Developing countries have been advised to have a common strategy when attending the COP17 meeting in Durban.It will be held at the end of this to pressurize formulation of long term strategies in dealing with the effects of climate change. The common goal will help in [...]