Greg Benchwick
Online Launch of the Participatory Climate Information Services for Agriculture Manual
This is the edited version of the Participatory Integrated
Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) webinar held late October. Download
presentation from the seminar: http://ow.ly/U2ERG
Learn more about PICSA: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/PICSA
The online MarkSimGCM tool is a stochastic weather-generating platform that aims to help fill this knowledge gap, by helping online users generate simulated daily weather data across the globe. It can deliver information about rainfall, maximum and minimum temperatures and solar radiation, and has been specifically designed for tropical countries Using one or more global climate models, the analogues tool developed by CCAFS takes climate and rainfall predictions for a particular site and searches for places with similar conditions at present. Armed with the knowledge of what they may face in future, farmers, researchers and policy makers can determine their adaptation options based on real – as opposed to crystal ball-gazing
Ethiopia secures over $531m for drought mitigation activities
StarAfrica.com
According to the Commissioner, the number of the needy is expected to decrease in July as better rain was forecasted by the National Meteorology Agency.The government is importing 405,000 metric tons of grains in addition to the 222,000 metric tons ...
Malawi: Climate Change Threatens Food Security
AllAfrica.com
Lilongwe — Abiti Mkwanda, a 62-year-old woman resident in Mangochi district in the southern region of Malawi remembers vividly how the 2015 floods left her hopeless when her maize field drowned. She recounts how it has been hard to find food for ...
Climate change could devastate Africa. It's already hurting this Kenyan town.
Washington Post
In Africa, the effects of rising temperatures could be especially dramatic. By mid-century, climate change will probably reduce the yields of major cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa by more than 20 percent, according to the IPCC. “Africa is projected ...
Weather Forecasting and Monitoring: Mobile Solutions for Climate Resilience
When
tradition meets technology.
Laurent-Mascar Ngoma
Thanks Greg
Well received.
Best regards
Laurent
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