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sur le développement des zones arides et semi-arides

Titre : Local-scale early warnings for drought - can they increase community resilience

Pays/Région : South Africa

Date : 1 January 2012–31 December 2014

Identifiant : 2013-06285_VR

Présentation
Drought forcasts are critical in order to provide early warnings that facilitate actions in mitigation the impacts. The project aims test how a local scale early warning system (EWS) for drought could be designed in order to increase rural community resilience.

In cooperation with University of KwaZulu-Natal, CSIR and the EU DEWFORA project (where we will be an unpaid partner) we will define a pilot area in the Limpopo river basin to test how such a system could be created in reality. The work consists of (1) Assessment of institutional framework and communication channels between EWS, authorities and communities ; (2) Locally defined drought indices and soft observations of signs of drought ; (3) Wireless sensor networks for local monitoring of drought indices ; (4) Regional seasonal and decadal forecast coupled to hydrological/agricultural models.

Coordination : Linköping University

Financement : Swedish Research Council
Budget : 3,600,000 kr

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