Day: December 12, 2023

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences(HAW Hamburg)

Developing sustainable solutions to the societal challenges of today and tomorrow. This is the goal of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW Hamburg), northern Germany’s leading applied sciences university when it comes to reflective practice. Our central focus is the excellence of our teaching and our degree courses. Simultaneously, HAW Hamburg is continuing to […]

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WASCAL

WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use) is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change and increased variability. It does so by strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West Africa […]

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University of The Gambia (UTG)

The University of The Gambia was established by an Act of the National Assembly of the Gambia in March 1999.  The enactment, which was a bold step to fulfill a long-standing desire of the people of The Gambia and to respond to several years of advocacy both within and outside the country for a university, […]

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Project Objectives

The awareness of growing climate impacts on land use and management is one of the reasons why the Paris climate change agreement –endorsed at COP 21 in 2015– put into motion the development of a task force to generate recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize, and address displacement driven by climate change. One of the […]

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Project Relevance and Synergy with Funding Guidelines

The project is relevant for three main reasons. Firstly, it will highlight the fundamental pointson land use and management, based on the available literature and documents, since itconcentrates on deepening insights into unregulated land use in The Gambia, especiallyaround the large urban centers of the country. Secondly, the feasibility study will examine thelinks between population, […]

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Scientific and Technological Foundations: Original Approach in Desk Study

Climate change is seen and perceived as one of the most pressing problems currently affecting African countries, including The Gambia (IPCC 2014, Leal Filho 2015). Changes in climate trends are already affecting livelihoods and food security in the Sahel and West Africa (Leal Filho 2019). According to evidence released by a joint study by the […]

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Professor Walter Leal

Professor Walter Leal (Germany) IPCC lead author, has been working in the WASCAL region for the past 25 years, with climate change and resilience projects undertaken in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast. He was involved in the training of some WASCAL PhD students, who have attended various events he has organised. […]

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Professor Kehinde Ogunjobi

Professor Kehinde Ogunjobi (WASCAL Competence Center) is a meteorologist, biodiversity expert, environmental and climate scientist with vast experience in climate change, LULC, air quality and aerosols meteorology. His research focuses on air quality modeling, climate modeling. Considering the numbers and quality of his research, Professor Ogunjobi has made significant contribution to the scientific critical mass […]

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Professor Sidat Yaffa

Professor Sidat Yaffa (The Gambia) specializes on agriculture, climate change research, loss & damage research, and UNFCCC negotiations. He often writes technical papers on agriculture and climate change/climate variability, and has written many project proposals, mid- term reviews, and project completion reports. Currently, he is a Professor of Agronomy at University of The Gambia, Dean, […]

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Dr. Belko Abdoul Aziz DIALLO 

Belko Abdoul Aziz Diallo (WASCAL competence centre), Eng., PhD. (male) is a GIS and Big Data scientist. He holds the position of Senior Data Manager at the Competence center of WASCAL (West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use). He completed his PhD research program on mobile Geospatial Business Intelligence at […]

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