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Displaying 68 of about 68 resultsRegister hereTime14:00-16:00 (GMT-7)AboutIn the face of disruptive environmental and economic change, data and artificial intelligence may offer the best hope for resilience in agriculture, farming, ranching, and water use amid a drying climate.The Institute for Computation and Data-Enabled Insight invites students, faculty and staff to join University…
App gets forecasts from virtual weather stations
Information can save herders scouting as far as 120 km
Illiteracy and low smartphone access limit app's reach
By Kagondu Njagi
As climate change brings more weather extremes, access to village-level drought updates and advice via smartphones is helping under-pressure pastoralists cope.
MERILLE, K…
The high risk emanating from the increasing number of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure systems at national or local level is only now beginning to be understood. The cascading effect of that risk beyond the system under attack into allied and interconnected fields can be even more devastating, creating chaos to major economic, food and health sy…
By Mary Allen
Practical Action is working in West Africa to help small-holder farmers and people living in low income households to improve their management of and resilience to climate related risks such as drought and floods, through access to information and adapted knowledge services.
In 2015 we co-founded the social enterprise Jokalante, who…
By Martin Moyo
In 2016 and 2017, Zimbabwe was struck by a double disaster: An already severe drought was exacerbated by the most extreme El Niño impact seen in the country during the past 75 years. In combination, the two events decimated food production, and led Zimbabwe to declare a state of disaster.
Unfortunately, such extreme weather is becoming…
By Eireene Jairee Gomez, with contributions from Eugene Y. Adiong
The government is poised to begin cloud seeding in areas hit by El Niño to help ease the impact of the drought on agriculture, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday.
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Data from the DA’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Operations Center showed that…
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a $90 million loan to help Cambodia strengthen climate resilience and modernize the agriculture sector using advanced technologies.
The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains Sector Project will also be funded by an additional $10 million loan and a $30 million grant from the Green…
Higher education can be part of the climate solution, by implementing key strategies that build community climate resilience
By Ruby Woodside
The long-predicted impacts of climate change are now a daily reality. Today, we’re seeing record-smashing heat; unprecedented storms; and a “fire season” that burns year-round. And worse is y…