Prakash, Anjal; Cundill, Georgina; Scodanibbio, Lucia; Vincent, Katharine; Nathe, Nathalie; Morchain, Daniel; DeMaria-Kinney, Jesse; Soumelong Ehode, Lancelot; Sukla, Debabrat; Mishra, Arabinda; Piryani, Aneel(Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asis (CARIAA), 2019-02)
This paper shares lessons from the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA), a seven-year transdisciplinary and cross-regional research programme that supported four consortia spanning Africa ...
Neglected and underutilized food crops (NUFCs) have high nutritional value, but their role in achieving nutrition security is not adequately understood, and they do not feature in food and nutrition policies and programs ...
This report provides a general overview of the regional climate in West Africa. A follow-up report that provides a specific focus on the climate of the semi-arid regions of West Africa is currently under development.
The waterscape is a perspective that has captured the imagination of diverse scholars interested in the interaction of water and society. This includes the way water travels in time and space and is shaped by culture and ...
Rasul, Golam(International Journal of River Basin Management, 2015-03)
The Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna (GBM) river system flows through five countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal – characterized by large population, limited land resources, and frequent floods and natural ...
Siderius, Christian; Biemanns, Hester; van Walsum, Paul E. V.; van Ierland, Ekko C.; Kabat, Pavel; Hellegers, Petra J.G.J.(Ulrich Melcher, Oklahoma State University, United States, 2019-03)
One of the main manifestations of climate change will be increased rainfall variability. How to deal with this in agriculture will be a major societal challenge. In this paper we explore flexibility in land use, through ...
The objective of this work is to assess the downscaling projections of climate change over Central America at 8-km resolution using the Eta Regional Climate Model, driven by the HadGEM2-ES simulations of RCP4.5 emission ...
Picado Trana, Freddy; Moran, Miroslava(IDRC / Centro del agua del tropico humedo para América latina et el Caribe (CATHALAC), 2016-07)
El problema fundamental de investigación fue el de reducir la brecha existente entre el conocimiento científico sobre los impactos del cambio climático en los recursos hídricos, y los esfuerzos que desarrollan las instituciones ...
With the increasing impacts of climate change in Africa, a relationship between rainfall and yields in semi-arid Ghana has been observed. Drawing insights from three agrarian societies in the semi-arid region of Ghana using ...
Programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire en économie (PTCI); Programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire en économie (PTCI); Nestor, Tito Dr.(Programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire en économie (PTCI), 2019-02)
La création du Programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire en économie (PTCI) répond au souci de réduire les inefficacités internes et externes du système d'enseignement supérieur en Afrique francophone; lesquelles ...
Zomahoun, Thierry(African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Women in STEM Initiative (AIMSWIS), 2018-10)
Through this publication we seek to promote awareness of the valuable contributions that African women can and are making to science, particularly climate science, and promote the incredible stories of female African climate ...
This report will be valuable for various ecosystem stakeholders including investors, women entrepreneurs, researchers, financial advisors and intermediaries, academia, regulatory agencies and government policymakers, ...
Mansour, Malak(Education for Employment Egypt, 2019-02)
EFE-Egypt committed to the research questions outlined in the initial proposal and work plan. Such questions include: What skills and competencies are required to effectively train youth to meet labor market demands? What ...
This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue
between scholarly ...
The Project is for three years and its objective will be achieved through four expected outputs: (i) research, communication and leadership capacities, and skills of students to undertake quality AR4D sustainably strengthened; ...
Sand barrier complex dynamics play a key role in defining coastal lagoon structure and functioning. Artificial manipulation of these dynamics for biased reasons (e.g., controlling floods, improving fisheries) aggravates ...
Donoso, Claudia(Estado & comunes, revista de politicas y problemas publicos, no. 5, vol. 2, julio-diciembre de 2017, 119-134 p., 2017-03)
A web of power relationships at the border have perpetuated intersectional inequalities
that led women to become smugglers of fuel and propane cylinders in the border zones shared with Peru and Colombia, in El Oro and ...
Young, John; Hauck, Volker; Engel, Paul(European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), 2013-09)
This report presents the findings of the 2013 External Evaluation of the Think Tank Initiative program, a multi-donor program dedicated to strengthening the capacity of independent policy research institutions in 20 ...
In 2015, the Think Tank Initiative elected for an accompaniment approach as a means to assessing results and receive independent, timely and actionable feedback for Phase 2 of TTI programming (2015-2019). It contracted the ...