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Partners from left to right : CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici Scarl ULUND - Lunds Universitet CEA - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique MPG - Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften E.V. VUA - Vereniging voor Christelijk Hoger Onderwijs Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Patientezorg CTFC - Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research CIRAD - Centre de Cooperation International en recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement FAO-GTOS - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO SOW-VU - Stichting Onderzoek Wereldvoedselvoorziening van de Vrije Universiteit UR2PI - Unitè de Recherche sur la Productivité des Plantations Industrielles UCT - University of Cape Town BCA - University of Malawi LBEV - University of Lomé ARC - Agricultural Research Corporation ICPAC - Igad Centre for Climate Prediction and Application CSIR-CRI - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Crops Research Institute CERPINEDD - Cerpinedd Centre d'Étude de Recherche et de Production en Information pour l'Environnement et le Developpement Durable ClimAfrica: a new project for improving climate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa R.Valentini, A.Bombelli, E.Grieco Euromediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC) Division of Climate Change Impacts on agriculture, forests and natural ecosystems (IAFENT) 7° Framework Programme of European Commission The African Context Africa is probably the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability, because of the combination of its low adaptive capacity with particular eco-climatic and socioeconomic conditions (i.e. sea level rise, flooding, drought, desertification, land degradation, poverty, conflicts, migration, urbanization, population growth, diseases, etc.). African population mostly depend on the rural sector based on rain fed agriculture. Thus food production depends directly on climate making both the economy and livelihood significantly at risk by climate change. ClimAfrica Rationale ClimAfrica is conceived to respond to the urgent need for the most appropriate and up-to-date tools to better understand and predict climate change in Africa, assess its impact on African ecosystems and population, and develop suited adaptation strategies. ClimAfrica Work Plan The work is organized in eight complementary work-packages: WP1: Past climate variability WP2: Modelling seasonal to decadal climate predictions WP3: Climate impacts WP4: Medium-term warning system, vulnerability, adaptation WP5: Socio-economic implications WP6: Case studies in Africa WP7: Project Management WP8: Dissemination ClimAfrica Objectives 1- Develop improved climate predictions on seasonal to decadal climatic scales, especially relevant to Sub-Saharan Africa 2- Assess climate impacts in key sectors of Sub-Saharan Africa livelihood and economy, especially water resources and agriculture 3- Evaluate the vulnerability of ecosystems and civil population to inter-annual variations and longer trends (10 years) in climate 4- Suggest and analyse new suited adaptation strategies 5- Develop a new concept of medium term monitoring and forecasting warning system (for food security, risk management, civil protection) 6- Analyse the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources in Sub-Saharan Africa and the cost-effectiveness of potential adaptation measures. WP1 – Past Climate Variability Collection and synthesis of various data streams that diagnose the variability of the climate, in particular the water cycle, and the productivity of ecosystems in the past decades. The data streams range from ground based observations and satellite remote sensing to model simulations. WP1 aims at providing consolidated data to other WPs in ClimAfrica, and at analyzing the interactions between climate variability, water availability, and ecosystem productivity of Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent trends in the water cycle of Africa WP2 - CMCC seasonal forecast and decadal prediction system • Seasonal retrospective forecast for 22 years (1989-2010). Four six-month-forecasts per year, start dates 1st Feb, 1st May, 1st Aug, 1st Nov. • Decadal predictions. Twenty-year-simulations, start dates 1990-1995-2000-2005-2010, November 1st. • Simulations are performed by means of a global climate model initialized with the best observational products of ocean, land and atmosphere. Outputs provided: • surface temperature • Precipitation • heat fluxes • winds • etc. East Africa WP3 – Analysis of climate impacts on key ecosystem services (water-agric.) Quantify the sensitivity of vegetation productivity and water resources to seasonal, WP4 – Medium-term of Forecasting food and water vulnerabilities and recommending interannual and decadal variability in weather and climate, using impact models on relevant adaptation masures Establish a monitoring and forecasting warning system (based on ClimAfrica data) that agriculture and water produces prospective analyses about food insecurity and water crisis for the next 10 CO2 emissions Climate Land Use years.Integrate and harmonize ClimAfrica data with existing data and information to be used as Identify tradeoffs and areas of risk and Change Change inputs to develop improved vulnerability assessment and optimal adaptation options. vulnerability related to: Natural Resources and Food Security – Systems at Risk (NaF-SAR) a) water related hazards Integrate and harmonize ClimAfrica data with existing data and information to be used as inputs b) agricultural and pastoral performance to develop improved vulnerability assessment and optimal adaptation options. c) soil degradation Crop Model A Risk framework is being used to …using an agroDVM climate simulation data from WP2; information provide a strategic context for the data and tools generated. on past yield and water resources from WP1 Crop yield Water use The framework consists of 4 and WP6) key stages: WP5 – Socio-economic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation 1- Physiographic data related to hazard or environmental measures in SSA Economic assessment of agriculture and water sector based on a Computable General pressure; Equilibrium analysis (ICES) to produce the “inaction” and the adaptation scenarios, for 2- Socio-economic data (people) direct climate change impacts on agricultural activity and on the direct cost and 3- Risk assessment hot spotting effectiveness of adaptation strategies. Moreover, the spatially explicit and dynamic based on (1) & (2) and the development of scenarios economic modelling of vulnerability will have to accommodate bio-physical vulnerabilities. 4- Decision support Project Partnership The ClimAfrica consortium is formed by 18 institutions, 9 from Europe, 8 from Africa, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). African countries directly involved are: Burkina Faso, Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Sudan and Togo. WP6 – Case Studies Characterize the environmental and socio-economic conditions of 9 different Sub-Saharan African regions distributed along a wide climate gradient (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Malawi, Republic of Congo, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania). The studies carried out in these regions will provide field data to other work packages for empirical model development and mechanistic model parametrization. In addition, the synergies developed with the existing actors (managers and policy-makers, NGO’s, local farmer’s organizations, women’s associations, etc.) during these studies will allow to test and validate both the individual model outputs and the Medium Term Warning System in these regions Tchizalamou site, Congo Expected Results 1) improved climate predictions over Africa 2) evaluation of climate impacts on water resources and agriculture 3) new adaptation strategies suited for Africa 4) assessment of economic implications of climate change impacts and adaptation 5) an operational medium term monitoring and forecasting warning system CONTACTS - CLIMAFRICA COORDINATION OFFICE: Riccardo Valentini (project coordinator and Director of Division of Climate Change Impacts on agriculture, forests and natural ecosystems – IAFENT, [email protected] ) Antonio Bombelli (project manager, [email protected] ) Elisa Grieco ( [email protected] ) WebSite: www.climafrica.net www.cmcc.it