30 May – 3 June 2022- South Africa Background information The First FA Stakeholders’ Workshop was focused on South Africa and took place virtually. It was comprised of Internal workshop (30 November – 1 December 2020) and external stakeholder w...
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FOCUS-Africa traveled to Mozambique in what is officially the first field trip for the project. The team working on food security in case study three , led by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pisa, Italy, finally met in person in a windy aft...
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The agriculture in East Africa is mainly rain-fed with little or no irrigation. Farmers and smallholders are highly dependent on rainfall and have no reserves to draw on in dry periods. More accurate seasonal forecasts can help save crops, enhance fo...
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We invite you to join Climate Chance’s upcoming Virtual Workshop on Access to Energy in Africa that will take place on Thursday 18th March from 3:00-4:00pm (CET, Paris time). Live translation English >> French will be a...
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We hope you’ve had a safe and good start to 2021. At the end of 2020, we held our first FOCUS Africa stakeholder #workshop with the second day of the workshop focused on learning and applying the concepts behind Responsible Research & In...
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Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, made a committment to lead the fight against global warming through the “transformation and deep decarbonisation of the whole economy,” calling for siginifcant adaptati...
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For more than a century, nations have equipped themselves to provide weather, climate and hydrological information, forecasts and, more recently, remotely sensed data and early warnings to the public and private sectors. These services, collectively ...
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In the spirit of identifying areas of collaboration and creating synergies with other initiatives as encouraged by the European Commission, we introduce you to CONFER and DOWN2EARTH. These two projects were funded under the same European Commission c...
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Southern Africa, the target of FOCUS-Africa, is marked by economic regional imbalances with small and littlediversified economies, pronounced inequalities and poverty. According to the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (2010), the r...
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FOCUS-Africa – Full-value chain Optimised Climate User-centric Services for Southern Africa – is developing sustainable tailored climate services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region for four sectors: agriculture and food secur...
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