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African Climate portal provides its members with a blog in which all registered users can post their personal articles, opinions, questions and answers related to the African Climate Change themes. Your point of view is what makes the African Climate portal relevant to other climate change interested people, so feel free to post and respond to others' posts.

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Sandile Ngcamphalala
SandileNgcamphalala
The First AfriCAN Climate Award 2013 – Dakar, Senegal

As part of the dissemination of information and promotion of the AfriCAN Climate Portal (www.africanclimate.net) to raise awareness on climate change in

AfriCAN Climate, Awards, awareness raising
27-05-2013
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Kristi Foster
KristiFoster
Measuring carbon in blue gum trees

Researchers and landscape managers now have an accurate way to estimate the carbon held in blue gums (Eucalyptus spp.).

biomass, kenya, Allometric equations, Eucalyptus, Farmers
29-03-2013
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Kristi Foster
KristiFoster
The carbon sequestration potential of farms in the African Sahel

In Africa agricultural land covers more than double the area covered by forests, and that ratio is rising.

agroforestry, climate change, Sahel, mitigation, adaptation, Parklands, Sequestration
27-03-2013
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Kristi Foster
KristiFoster
Agroforestry helps farmers adapt to climate change

We know that agroforestry can provide a range of benefits for subsistence farmers. But just how does agroforestry reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate change?

agroforestry, climate change, adaptation, kenya, food security
27-03-2013
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Teodoro Sanchez
TeodoroSanchez
Climate Change Awareness Raising; numbers and impact on the poor

Early in February, the BBC broadcast the final part of Sir David Attenborough's Africa programme.

awareness raising, Climate Change Mitigation, adaptation, access to modern energy, energy access, Conservation, Environmental Impacts, biodiversity
22-03-2013
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Vincent Oparah
VincentOparah
Reduce Carbon Foot Prints in Workplace

The advent of Google docs, Blogging, Image Sharing sites could mark the end of hard copies for: books, journal and documents; given that people now have the option of accessing and storing soft cop

Workplace; Carbon Foot Prints; Google Docs
23-09-2012
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chahbani bellachheb
chahbanibellachheb
New Technology for Drought and hunger Mitigation within climate change conditions

New Technology and possibility for Drought Mitigation

drought mitigation; adaptation technology for climate change; irrigation water saving technology
30-08-2012
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Teodoro Sanchez
TeodoroSanchez
Improved Cook stoves- An issue of perception?

The dissemination of improved cook stoves has never been easy.

Improved Cook Stove, Renewable energies, biomass
10-08-2012
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Martha Bissmann
Martha Bissmann
Welcome to AfriCAN Climate – the portal for disseminating climate change research is launched!!

In Africa, climate change is already determining the course of people’s lives.

AfriCAN Climate portal launch, climate change research
29-06-2012
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