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[PROJECT] DACCIWA - Dynamics-aerosol-chemistry-cloud interactions in West Africa
ID: 603502
Start date: 2013-12-01, End date: 2018-11-30
Massive economic and population growth and urbanisation are expected to lead to a tripling of anthropogenic emissions in southern West Africa (SWA) between 2000 and 2030, the impacts of which on human health, ecosystems, food security and the regional climate are largely unkn...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 110818
Last updated on: 2017-02-13
ID: 243964
Start date: 2010-02-01, End date: 2013-07-31
One of the most dramatic and immediate impacts of climate variation is that on disease, especially the vector-borne diseases that disproportionally affect the poorest people in Africa. Although we can clearly see that, for example, an El Nino event triggers Rift Valley Fever ...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 93952
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] CLIMAFRICA - Climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations
ID: 244240
Start date: 2010-10-01, End date: 2014-09-30
Africa is probably the most vulnerable continent to climate change and climate variability and shows diverse range of agro-ecological and geographical features. Thus the impacts of climate change can be very high and will greatly differ across the continent, and even within c...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 95908
Last updated on: 2017-05-25
ID: IC18970193
Start date: 1998-01-01, End date: 2001-12-31
The main aim of the project is to increase the rate of establishment of Milicia excelsa seeds and/or seedlings by 20% by selection of genotypes with improved resistance to local stress factors in three principal climatic zones in West Africa. This will be achieved by fulfillin...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40165
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
[PROJECT] IWWA - INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT IN WESTERN AFRICA
ID: 244188
Start date: 2010-06-01, End date: 2012-05-31
Most of African countries are struggling towards development and improving their living conditions. An appropriate waste management structure at a national and regional level is a milestone that must be achieved in order to improve living standards, health and environment. Th...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 94661
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] AMMA - African monsoon multidisciplinary analysis
ID: 004089
Start date: 2005-01-01, End date: 2009-12-31
The dramatic change in the region of the West African monsoon (WAM) from wet conditions in the 50s and 60s to much drier conditions from the 70s to the 90s represents one of the strongest inter-decadal signals on the planet in the 20th century. Marked inter-annual variations i...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 85507
Last updated on: 2012-02-13
[PROJECT] DADOBAT - Domestication and development of baobab and tamarind
ID: 32217
Start date: 2006-12-01, End date: 2010-11-30
Tamarindus indica often occurs wild in the tropics. Unimproved trees are often commercially exploited, but are considered as under-utilised crop. There is a lack of a national research agenda; global interest and research impact are insignificant. Tamarind is used for timber, ...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 81325
Last updated on: 2011-01-24
[PROJECT] AFRICANUANCES - Exploring tradeoffs around farming livelihoods and the environment: the AfricaNUANCES framework
ID: 3729
Start date: 2004-12-01, End date: 2008-05-31
Past interventions and proposed technologies have often failed to alleviate problems of soil fertility and food production in sub-Saharan Africa as they are delivered as single component solutions that rarely address the complexity of the livelihoods of farmers. Further agricu...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 75157
Last updated on: 2010-07-27
[PROJECT] AEGOS - African-European Georesources Observation System
ID: 212545
Start date: 2008-12-01, End date: 2011-11-30
Africa, the largest single component of the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Group of States, despite its huge potential for development through both human and georesources, suffers in many places from poverty and underdevelopment. The sustainable use of its resources is a key...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 89340
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] WASHTECH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies
ID: 266200
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2013-12-31
The water and sanitation sector is not short of new and emerging technologies, but hardly any have been adopted into national strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa, nor have they been widely taken up by private enterprise. The contribution of new technologies to MDG targets appear...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 97387
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
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