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Sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to be highly vulnerable to climate change. Coping with climate change and climate variability by forest resource-dependent communities would require assistance in identifying appropriate adaptation mechanisms and rightful policy framework. Vulnerability and adaptation pose significant analytical and policy challenges, especially in a region that lacks the resources to manage uncertainties. For example, there are significant scientific challenges like understanding transitional changes across forest-savannah ecosystems margins (biophysical and socio-economic) in response to climate change.
TroFCCA in West Africa intends to work closely with relevant sectors and actors in national governments, research and academic institutions and NGO’s. The Project take into consideration regional initiatives on adaptation, in particular those on forest resource-dependent communities across the wide spectrum of forest types and along the existing precipitation gradient from Northern Mali to Southern Ghana.
Activities in West Africa will be coordinated by CIFOR’s regional office in West Africa, located in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). CIFOR is an international research and global knowledge institution committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics. It employs over 150 staff at its headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia and at its regional offices in Brazil, Cameroon and Zimbabwe.
TroFCCA West Africa Flyer
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