We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan African farmers’ adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an earlier assessment that mutually reinforcing supply-side and demand-side capacity constraints impede the development o...
Hansen, James
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Dinku, Tufa
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Carr, Edward
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Körner, Jana
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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[Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale]
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Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale
Adaptation to anthropogenic climate change is the biggest challenge that humankind faces. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a synthesis of the state of the science, impacts, and policy, with a focus on long-term climate trends. However, the worst impacts of climate cha...
Many opportunities to improve agricultural resilience to a variable and changing climate depend on access to high-quality local climate records and are constrained by data gaps. Addressing data quality of meteorological station observations. The ENACTS approach builds capacity of a National Mete...
Dinku, Tufa
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Damen, Beau
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Sheinkman, Michael
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.
Decision-relevant information on the past climate, recent trends, likely future trajectories, anomalies and associated impacts is a prerequisite for decision-making at different levels. Unfortunately, climate information is often not available or, where it does exist, is inaccessible to those tha...
Dinku, Tufa
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Thomson, Madeleine C.
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Cousin, Remi
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Corral, John del
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Ceccato, Pietro
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Hansen, James
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Connor, Stephen J.
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa
There were a large number of active meteorological stations in Rwanda prior to the mid‐1990s and since around 2010. However, from around the time of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 throughout the late 2000s, the number of active stations was greatly reduced. To address temporal and spatial gaps in m...
Siebert, Asher
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Dinku, Tufa
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Vuguziga, Floribert
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Twahirwa, Anthony
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Corral, John del
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Robertson, Andrew W.
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[Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology]
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Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology