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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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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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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