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Insights from an internship with Evidence for Development
One of the main reasons I applied for my Masters programme in Environment, Politics, and Development at King’s College London over other institutions was the opportunity offered to complete an internship placement module alongside my second semester of study, and I am pleased to say it was one of the best experiences of my degree. […]
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7th August 2019
Integrating hydro-climate science into policy decisions for climate-resilient infrastructure and livelihoods in East Africa
Hon James Acidri MP Keynote speech from the HyCRISTAL project meeting on 21 May 2019 in Kampala, Uganda In Kampala, we are now in our first rainy season, but these are not the rains that we used to know particularly in my own district, Maracha-West Nile region. Four years ago, the HyCRISTAL project was launched […]
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15th May 2018
Imagine all the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro had melted
At the HyCRISTAL AGM in Kampala last month, climate change researchers were talking about 40-year horizons, where we did an exercise in small groups to each imagine the consequences of one of a list of possible scenarios. We were given our scenario and asked to work back to what we would have to do now, […]
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27th March 2018
Being present and engaged: tools and training for researchers
Dr Lucy Wallace EfD Communications Manager | CSAT Programme Manager Research inevitably means we spend an awful lot of time working in one small area. The mystical ‘bigger picture’ is relatively distant, it’s something we refer to in grant applications, and we often don’t know where to start to attain the coveted ‘research into policy […]
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23rd November 2017
How new technologies can make a difference to rural smallholder farmers.
Some of you may have seen this piece on the BBC about “How missing weather data is a ‘life and death’ issue”. It’s about tech start-up Kukua, and the weather stations they have installed in Tanzania to help provide local commercial farmers with better forecasts. Kukua is a business with a rather unusual business model: […]
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5th October 2017
Considering the health sector as an important user of Hydromet information
In September, I was able to attend the AMCOMET, African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology, forum in Addis Ababa. The focus of the forum was Weather, Water, and Climate Services, and the contribution of these ‘hydromet’ services to wider social and economic development is becoming increasingly evident as the reality of climate change hits both urban […]
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28th September 2016
Measuring resilience to climate change in the Lake Victoria basin
Just over a year ago the UK Department for International Development (DfID), with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) launched its ‘Future Climate for Africa’ (FCFA) project. This £20 million project, involving five research consortia, aims to “generate fundamentally new climate science focused on Africa, and to ensure that this science has an impact on […]
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30th July 2015
New HEA software developed by Evidence for Development
The household economy approach (HEA) is a method for assessing the vulnerability of rural populations to economic shocks and changes, based on their livelihood patterns and market information. It is now widely used as a method of famine early warning by many governments and humanitarian agencies, and also has important applications for managing the impacts […]
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The Household Economy Approach: Managing the impact of climate change on poverty and food security in developing countries (2014)
Also available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209631400031X
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10th February 2014
Climate change mitigation needs to be based on good information
As the international community grapples with the problem of climate change and its impact on agriculture, food security and poverty alleviation, the economic consequences for smallholder farmers need to be better understood and documented. Unless we are able to analyse and predict more precisely the ways in which both climate change and assistance programmes will […]
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9th January 2014
Big data, climate change and developing economies: predictive modeling for improved lives
I did my first, and possibly last, Ignite talk at Strata London recently. If you don’t know the format it goes like this: 5 minutes, 20 slides; the slides automatically advance every 15 seconds and you have to tell your story and finish on time. The story I was telling wasn’t about Acunu, nor even […]