CLIMAFRICA

Title

Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations

Duration

October 2010 until September 2014

Budget

217.560 € funded by EU - European Union: FP7

Contact

Hoff, Holger / Hattermann, Fred

PIK number / OEH

9680

Description

Africa is already a continent under a heavy pressure from climate stresses and due to its current low adaptation capacity, it is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Therefore stakeholders need the appropriate and most up-to-date tools to better understand and predict climate change, assess its impact on African ecosystems and population, and evaluate and undertake the correct adaptation strategies. In this respect there is an urgent need to i) develop improved climate predictions on seasonal to decadal climatic scales in SSA, ii) evaluate climate change impacts on water and agriculture, iii) improve early warning systems from short to medium-long term predictions and iv) propose new and feasible adaptation strategies, especially fitted for the weakest communities.

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Homepage

http://www.climafrica.net