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WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) Research Program
Contract period
:
- 2016
Total budget
: 50000000 Euro
The WASCAL Core Research Program brings together a German research consortium, coordinated by the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, and an equivalent consortium on the West African side that has designed a joint research program on adapted land use and management of land under changing climatic conditions. The research program focuses on:
improving the adaptive capacity of ecological and socio-economic systems in the face of climate change
securing the flows of key ecosystem services like food production, provision of clean water, soil productivity, carbon sequestration, and services related to biodiversity
improving human livelihoods
The initial research area is the southern Sudanian savanna belt of West Africa (White, 1983), which is considered as the potential breadbasket of the region.
Coordinating institution
Subprojects
climate and weather
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.1 Development of a Regional Climate Model System for West Africa
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.2 Seasonal Climate and Regional Weather Forecasts
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 1.3 Interaction between Land Surface and Regional Climate
landscape dynamics
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.1 Remote sensing based analysis of Land Cover and Land Use Change pathways and drivers
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.2 Rangeland monitoring for land use management and adaptation
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.3 Adapting to water scarcity, uncertainty, and the effect of changing climate patterns – coping strategies and their impacts
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.4 Water Resources under Climate and Land Use Change
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.5 Soil carbon dynamics, soil fertility and soil degradation under climate and land use change
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.6 Status of biodiversity as Indicator for Ecosystem Resilience in West Africa
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 2.7 Biodiversity-related ecosystem service provision in managed landscapes
agricultural systems
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.1 Climate and technology impact on the provision of food, feed and fiber from agroecosystems
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.2 Economic Evaluation of Farming Systems
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 3.3 Farmers´ priorities and perceptions of climate change and the evaluation of local adaptation strategies
markets and livelihoods
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.1 Population dynamics
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.2 Local Markets
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.4 Politics of Adaptation
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 4.3 Income from Carbon Markets
risk management
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 5.1 Risk Assessment and Analysis
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 5.2 Economic Evaluation of Risk Management Strategies
integrated assessment
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 6.1 Development of a spatially explicit framework for land use impact modeling based on trade-off- and multi criteria analysis
- WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). Work Package 6.2 Agent-based models for integrated assessment
