Identifying pathways to improve food security in southern Africa’s mixed crop livestock systems and develop adaptive management strategies to reduce climate induced risks and to increase systems resilience. CSAG has been involved in the project ”Crop-livestock intensification in the face of climate change: exploring opportunities to reduce risk and increase resilience in Southern… Read more »
The Climate System Analysis Group (University of Cape Town) has been in a collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe for the project ‘’ Assessing adaptation capacity of crop management strategies for small holder farmers in Zimbabwe’’. Lead investigators of the project include Teddious Mhizha (University of Zimbabwe) and Olivier Crespo (CSAG), with co-investigators, Nkulumo… Read more »
The overall objective of the project is to enhance the capacity of policy analysts and scientists in the fields of agriculture, climate and socio-economics to collectively build a strong base of evidence on cropping systems to inform adaptation policies and investment decisions. The Climate System Analysis Group has been engaged in the Strengthening Evidence-Based… Read more »
Determining what visualisations are most appropriate for the effective communication of climate information to practitioners and decision makers is fundamental to the successful provision of climate services to support climate change adaptation. Given inherent uncertainties in projecting future climate, and issues in the reliability of climate models, it is particularly important to ensure the caveats… Read more »
CSAG has been contracted under a continuation of a previous project to provide climate change projections information to inform ESKOM’s long term planning strategy with regards to electricity transmission. A particular focus was the identification of suitable locations for generation stations with particular water and cooling requirements. A continuation of the project is focussed on… Read more »
CSAG has been contracted under a continuation of a previous project to provide climate change projections information for one station in the Mpumalanga region. Additionally CSAG will provide a training workshop in order to draw out Eskom’s vulnerability to current and future climate. The objective of the project is for Eskom to identify and assess… Read more »
CSAG has been contracted to provide climate change projections information to inform ESKOM’s long term planning strategy with regards to electricity generation. A particular focus lies in the identification of suitable locations for generation stations with specific thresholds of water and cooling requirements. Both downscaled projections and GCM based circulation fields are to be combined… Read more »
CSAG have been contracted by Harwelle International to undertake a short review of climate information available for 10 DFID (Department for International Development) country offices within Africa. This includes responding to the individual needs of each country office, commenting on the reliability and availability of information for each country and providing additional projections. As a part… Read more »
CSAG is in the planning phases of a new Water Research Commission (WRC) funded project to explore the limits to predictability of the climate system with a particular focus on seasonal forecasting in southern Africa. The project is “blue sky” in its approach and will develop a number of new analytical techniques and methodologies. The intent of the project… Read more »