April 2011
Call for proposals: Reconstructing and Evaluating Historic Daily Meteorological Data
Due: 25 May 2011. The objective of this call is to develop or adapt methods for reconstructing spatially- and temporally-complete, historic series of agriculturally-important meteorological variables on a daily time step, by combining available station observations with proxy data; and to evaluate daily historic meteorological data sets for the CCAFS focus regions of East and West Africa. Following the initial proof-of-concept study under this call, CCAFS hopes to secure additional resources to work with collaborating African national meteorological services to apply the methodology with their own station data, to develop and evaluate spatially- and temporally-complete gridded meteorological data sets for agricultural risk management and climate adaptation applications. An initial CCAFS-sponsored project has developed and is testing methods to reconstruct a 28-year time series of gridded (≤ 10 km) historic rainfall on a daily time step, by combining historic station observations with satellite thermal images. This call seeks to extend that work to other meteorological variables that are important for agriculture and needed for agricultural simulation modeling. Read more »
Call for proposals: Climate Impacts on Food Security Components
Due 18 May 2011. The objective of this call is to understand and document the relationship between climate variability and factors that impact food security, such as production, prices, rural incomes, consumption, trade, humanitarian assistance; and the main policies and processes that are in place to mediate those impacts in East and West Africa, and South Asia. Read more »
CCAFS Adaptation and Mitigation Framework in Special Issue of Experimental Agriculture
The new special issue of Experimental Agriculture features a number of research articles from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), including an introductory piece co-authored by our CCAFS theme leaders, titled “An integrated Adaptation and Mitigation Framework for Developing Agricultural Research: Synergies and Trade-offs.” Based on the CCAFS mission and structure, the article presents a road map for further research and on-the-ground activities, with the goal of making agricultural and food systems more climate-resilient. Read more »
CCAFS Coordinating Unit - University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Rolighedsvej 21, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark, phone +45 35331046; Email ccafs [at] cgiar [dot] org, EAN 5790000279012
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