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Call for Papers: 5th African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18–19 February 2027
NetCDA Project Partner HAW Hamburg is pleased to invite you to participate in the 5th African Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation, which will take place on 18–19 February 2027 at Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As Africa continues to experience...
WASCAL PhD Student Fatou Yattara presents her Preliminary Field Mission Report
Fatoumata Yattara is a WASCAL scholar at KNUST (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) in Kumasi, Ghana. As part of her doctoral thesis and in preparation for a main household survey scheduled for September 2026, Fatou conducted a preliminary field...
Building Climate Expertise in West Africa: Learning at Sea aboard the POLARSTERN
Photo: Courtesy of @Edson Silva Delgado, GEOMAR Full article: Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit (FONA) – FONA West Africa is among the regions most severely affected by climate change. Coastal erosion, prolonged droughts, marine heatwaves, and declining fish stocks are...
NetCDA Partner UNU hosts visit by WASCAL Graduate School Togo
In April the NetCDA partners from the UNU Bonn (UNU-EHS & UNU-ViE) had the pleasure of hosting a series of meetings and workshops with colleagues from WASCAL GSPTogo. The research of the WASCAL doctoral students at the University in Lomé is focussed on Climate...
Hochschule Neubrandenburg visits Partner University in Minna, Nigeria
In October 2025, Elke Mertens and Ralf Löwner from the NetCDA partner Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences visited their partner university, the Federal University of Technology Minna. The visit took place from October 19 to November 1, 2025, and focused on...
New Open Access Paper on Climate Change and Food Production in Africa
Frequency of prominent climate hazards causing losses and damages in food production as reported in the literature, by African regions (Filho et al. 2026). A new open-access publication first-authored by a NETCDA member from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences...