Climate, Water and Agriculture: Impacts and Adaptation of Agro-Ecological Systems in Africa
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| Organisation(s) involved: | Centre for Environmental Economics and policy in Africa(CEEPA) – University of Pretoria, GEF and the World Bank |
| Project Objective/ Description: | The main goal of the project was to develop multipliable analytical methods and procedures to assess quantitatively how climate affects current agricultural systems in Africa, predict how these systems may be affected in the future by climate change under various global warming scenarios, and suggest what role adaptation could play. |
| Location: | Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in west Africa; Egypt in north Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in east Africa and South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in southern Africa |
| Contact: | Dr. Rashid Hassan, rashid.hassan@up.ac.za |