While satellites and aircrafts are increasingly being used to collect data on weather and climate, ground-based weather stations are important for providing long-term information on climate. One project is working to install FreeStations in the Volta Basin.
New research indicates that the number of people at risk of malaria around dams, and associated reservoirs, in sub-Saharan Africa will nearly double to around 25 million by 2080.
The number of Africans at risk of malaria who live near dams will nearly double to 25 million by 2080 as areas where the disease is not currently present will become transmission zones due to climate change, researchers said on Monday.
The 1,500 participants at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW) and Forum for Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA) General Assembly thought so, but they also concluded that science will have a key role to play.
Intensifying sustainable agricultural production through improved smallholder irrigation, flood-recession farming, and enhanced rainfed production systems and related ecosystem services is a key priority in the work being carried out by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) in the Volta River Basin.
Researchers are using different methods - from the air, on the ground, and in the soil - to analyze farmer fields and interventions in the White Volta Basin.
Deep into the talks at the 8th Ecosystem Services Partnership conference held in South Africa’s mega diverse Western Cape, Bioversity International and Natural Capital Project colleagues filled the room with attendees hungry to learn more about MESH, an innovative new tool for mapping ecosystem services.
WLE’s Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) program is striving to reduce urbanization’s negative footprint on ecosystems by safely converting human waste into a resource that benefits farmers, improves sanitation, and generates new business opportunities.
Finding ways to assess and manage trade-offs and opportunities - balancing human development and environmental preservation - may be the most important contribution made by scientists from WLE and its partners to the SDG process.
The Water 4 Food project is one of five components being implemented as part of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and European Union-funded Water, Land and Ecosystems in Africa project (2014-2016).
IFPRI held a workshop in Washington, DC for their project "Agricultural development, ecosystems and their services: Insights from Agent-Based Modelling in the Indus, Mekong and Niger Basins."
