Month: November 2023
Mission & Vision
Mission To investigate, gather empirical data, and support policy formulation on climate change and land use management in The Gambia. This involves understanding the connections between climate change and land use, developing tools for a new land use policy, aiding in land boundary demarcation, and facilitating the development of a curriculum on land use management […]
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The Sahel region of West Africa, where The Gambia is located, has been significantly impacted by climate change. Rapid population growth has also altered the country’s land cover and its land use. Less rainfall leads to low agriculture yields and an impact is land degradation, making agriculture and other land uses less productive, leading to […]
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All-African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation The International Climate Change Information and Research Programme (ICCIRP), in collaboration with various universities, research centers, and international organizations, orchestrated the All-African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation as a virtual scientific gathering on 23 November 2023. As its name implies, the symposium emphasized the substantial contributions of researchers situated in […]
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Professor Walter Leal (Germany) IPCC lead author, has been working in the WASCAL region for the past 25 years, with climate change and resilience projects undertaken in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast. He was involved in the training of some WASCAL PhD students, who have attended various events he has organised. […]
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