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The staff of the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa occasionally publish research analysis to shed light on the complex issues facing the African continent. We also commission reports and analysis on topics relevant to climate change adaptation. Our publications include academic articles, book chapters, annual reports, and presentations.

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Participatory action research advances climate change adaptation

Research under the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa (CCAA) program explored how to improve the ability of African countries to adapt to climate change in ways that benefit the most vulnerable, including a large portfolio of research on adapting...

Extending our reach: CCAA annual report 2010-11

To achieve its goal of building capacity for adaptation in Africa, the CCAA strategy weds participatory research, capacity strengthening, and knowledge sharing. We built this three-pronged approach recognizing that Africa has a wealth of wisdom on...

Facing the tide: Weighing options to protect Egypt’s Nile Delta coast

Bassem Farhat, a young farmer in the northern town of Gamasa, stands eyeing his once fertile land, now flooded with saline ground water. “It is impossible to grow anything here. I must drain and rinse the land if I have any hope of growing crops...

When every drop of rain counts: Managing climate risks in the Greater Horn of Africa

In her small vegetable plot in Kenya’s Kitui county, Mary Mueni Samson scrutinizes a rain gauge and carefully notes the results. It is the middle of one of the worst droughts to hit East Africa in recent decades. And though Kitui has been spared the...

Looking upstream and down: Addressing climate change impacts in Accra and Addis Ababa

With climate change deepening many existing problems African cities face, what can be done to address the crucial issues of water supply and wastewater management? In the capital cities of Ghana and Ethiopia, researchers with the innovative project...

IDRC on climate change adaptation

New knowledge for an uncertain future Long before the term “global warming” appeared in headlines, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) was supporting research on climate change.We recognized, early on, that a warming climate...

Adapting fishing policies to address climate change in West Africa

Coastal West Africa, from Mauritania to Guinea, benefits from a marine upwelling of nutrient-rich cold water which makes it one of the world’s most productive fishing zones. The fisheries sector is therefore extremely important to both national and...

Balancing competing water needs in Morocco’s Saiss basin

Each year, Moroccans use nearly 70% of their annual recoverable water supply which is about 20 cubic kilometres. While this may sound sustainable, at the local level it is not viable because community use of groundwater is increasing, while overall...

Protecting smallholders’ food security by improving soils

The resilience of farming systems to climate change and variability depends upon healthy soil. Millions of African farmers lack the money, technologies, livestock and time to maintain their soils as well as they would like. Infertile soils give poor...

Reducing vulnerability among pastoralists in northern Kenya

The devastating drought that gripped much of East Africa in 2009 was one of the worst in living memory. But in the arid and semi-arid lands of Northern Kenya, drought is no stranger. Since 1993, Kenya has declared six national disasters because of...