Agricultural water management (AWM) offers a way of facilitating water-centered development to simultaneously reduce poverty, increase food security, and adapt to climate variability and change. It aims to decrease ...

Building resilience against the negative impacts of climate and maximizing the benefits from favorable conditions will require designing and implementing effective climate risk management strategies.These strategies ...

Africa is highly vulnerable to climate change mainly because of its strong economic dependency on climate-related activities and products and low adaptive capacity.This low adaptive capacity is linked to weak economies, ...

Climate financing is essential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in both developing and developed countries.It is an essential part of securing a low carbon development future that does not sacrifice urgently needed ...

Climate change and climate variability add to the challenges that face the agricultural sector in Africa. Worldwide, considerable shifts in long-term averages and variability in rainfall and temperature, sea levels, and ...

African countries will suffer health consequences related to the effects of climate change as their people are among the most vulnerable to climatic change in the world. This vulnerability is due in part to existing problems ...

Africa has substantial reserves of fossil fuel resources.These include about 9.5% of the total global proven reserves of crude oil, 8% of natural gas reserves, and 4% of coal reserves. Much of the fossil fuel in Africa ...

Climate change is challenge to sustainable development in Africa. Even though Africa contributes less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is disproportionately affected by the impact of climate change on, inter ...

A modest, harmonized international levy imposed on air transport and marine freight services could make a significant contribution to meeting these needs without damaging the competitiveness of any country, region, or ...

African country and other climate service providers must greatly strengthen their observational networks and enhance their capacity to deliver a full range of climate services in support of sustainable development. The ...