Need methods and equipment to assess water quality and quantity
Water utilities need methods and equipment to assess water quality and quantity and plan management actions ...
Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge
The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce farm contaminant lost into water systems while encourage agriculture to generate or conserve a ...
Improving the Quantity, Quality and Use of Africa’s Water
According to the 2006 UNDP Human Development Report, governments need to spend about one per cent of GDP on water and sanitation. Additionally, increased international aid would play a very crucial ...
On-line real-time water quality monitoring for bacterial contamination of water
ColiMinder® is a fully automated measurement system for detection of bacterial contamination in water created in Austria. ColiMinder CMI is able to detect ultra-sensitively faecal or total ...
Developing new ways to remove or inactivate pathogens in water
Waterborne pathogens are a major health threat and must be eliminated to guarantee safe usage of water for potable purposes. For this purpose, a new carbon-based nanomaterial composed of single-walled ...
Digital Climate Services for Agriculture
Digital Climate-informed Advisory Services (DCAS) — such as mobile apps and radio — are already aiming to help millions of small-scale agricultural producers better adapt to a more variable and ...
Blog: Activities that promote CSA practices’ adoption – the Case of Weather Index Based Insurance (WIBI)
Smallholder farmers in Burkina Faso, confronted to a multitude of challenges, are among the most exposed to the risks associated with climate change (floods and severe droughts). These risks constrain ...
Understand and mitigate impacts of agriculture, livestock and aquaculture to produce more food
River basin organisations need to enforce policies to prevent water pollution and use environmental assessments to understand and mitigate impacts of agriculture, livestock and aquaculture to produce ...
Research on how to increase agricultural productivity
Academia and research organisations need to conduct research on how to increase agricultural productivity in view of climate change to improve population health and the livelihoods of (smallholder) ...
Help increase agricultural resilience to climate change
Civil society organisations need to disseminate methods to optimize water productivity in arid areas to help increase agricultural resilience to climate change ...
AGROSYM 2020: the International Agriculture Symposium
AGROSYM is, for the past eleven years, an annual platform for international scientific discussion on agriculture, food, rural development, environment and forestry. AGROSYM represents a good ...
FAO-UNDP Briefing Note: National Adaptation Plans - an entry point for ecosystem-based adaptation
The FAO-UNDP Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) programme have released their latest briefing note "National Adaptation Plans - an entry point for ecosystem-based adaptation ...
Discover the Smart AfriHub
The SMARTAFRIHUB is a Smart Agriculture Innovative Hub, aiming to connect agricultural stakeholders, researchers and policy makers to key smart agriculture information. By sharing this information ...
ANBO General Assembly
The President and the Permanent Technical Secretary of the African Network of Basin Organizations (ANBO) invite you to mark your calendar for the next General Assembly (GA) of this network scheduled ...
HERAKLION 2019
7th International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management The Conference aims to address the significant issue of sustainable solid waste management through the promotion of safe practices & ...
Publication: Analysing the value of environmental citizen-generated data: Complementarity and cost per observation
A key question in citizen science is: what is the value of environmental citizen-generated data? In this recent paper "Analysing the value of environmental citizen-generated data: Complementarity and ...
Launch of the Second Set of AfriAlliance Action Groups
25 September 2018 After a competitive call AfriAlliance has selected the 2nd set of 5 Action Groups that are currently launching their activities. Following the African and European wide call to ...
AfriAlliance and CitSAf working together to encourage citizen science!
4 December 2018 Citizen science encourages the public to get involved and to contribute data and local knowledge to addressing important issues, such as climate change and water management ...
