Kohimarama is an indigenous-led climate change mitigation and adaptation workshop supported by the Global Research Alliance. Drawing on indigenous experience, ingenuity and resilience, this workshop acts as a platform for indigenous people worldwide to align in the exchange of traditional knowledge, empowering indigenous youth to deliver climate change solutions for a more sustainable future.

Closing date: 11 July 2022

Location: Germany

A Scientific Assistant position is available in the Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Section Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics starting 01.09.2022. Tasks include:

• Scientific collaboration and support, in research and teaching, in the field of Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics on topics of animal nutrition, animal-environment interactions, ecosystem services of livestock-based land use systems, and greenhouse gas emissions with a regional focus on Africa and Asia.
• Independent acquisition of third-party funding and own research in at least one of the fields mentioned above.
• Teaching in the Bachelor’s and (English-language) Master’s programmes at the universities of Kassel and Göttingen.
• The successful candidate will be employed by the University of Kassel; work hours are to be distributed equally across the universities of Kassel (Witzenhausen campus) and Göttingen. In the context of supervising research projects in various (sub-)tropical countries, up to three stays abroad of several weeks duration are to be anticipated each year.

Further information can be found here.

Closing date for abstracts: 30 June 2022

The 2022 edition of the Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Stakeholders Conference is scheduled for 14th to 16th of September 2022. This edition is providing opportunities for researchers, academicians and students to share their research findings.

Learn more below.

A recording of the second session of the Inventories and NDC (I&NDC) Network 2022 Webinar Series titled “National agriculture inventory data collection and management” is now available to view.

Policies for agriculture mitigation strategies are shaped by accurate national agriculture emissions estimates. However, estimates are only as good as the data that underpin them. National activity data collection and its management is a universal challenge for compilers from Annex I and non-Annex II countries alike.

The aim of this webinar was to increase awareness on overcoming a lack of good quality data, and on setting up data management frameworks to support increasing emissions reporting from Tier 1 to Tier 2 levels.

The session brought together expert speakers whose work focuses on improving agriculture inventory activity data related issues.

Speaker biographies can be found here.

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) has published the first of three calls for proposals for 2022 to support implementation of the 2030 Strategy. A total of $9 million of CCAC funding is available this year.

Funding for the first call aims at advancing national policy and planning to reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in 23 countries.

• Opening date: 8 June 2022
• Closing date: 30 June 2022
• Total Estimated cost: US$ 3,000,000

The next two calls will support SLCP mitigation in the main emitting sectors, both through national government and industry actions.

Learn more here.

Closing date: 28 June 2022

Location: Ghana / Benin

Sustainable land management is increasingly important to maintain the fragile balance between human demands and ecosystem services of available natural resources, to enhance food security, to reduce the risk of conflicts, and to foster adaptation to climate change. DecLaRe is a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and aims to identify recommendation domains for scalable innovations towards sustainable crop production and animal husbandry in West Africa. Focussing on northern Benin and Ghana DecLaRe builds on available local and scientific knowledge and databases. It combines their use with problem-oriented research at the field level and modelling at the national to regional level. DecLaRe’s ultimate goal is to construct a decision support system (DSS) that can be used for land use and land management as well as for policy development.

In this context, the project will employ nine West African PhD candidates, who will be affiliated to one of the three West African DecLaRe partners: University for Development Studies (UDS, Ghana), University of Parakou (UP, Benin), and the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL, Burkina Faso).

Organisation/Funding Institution: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), University for Development Studies (UDS, Ghana), University of Parakou (Benin), West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL, Burkina Faso), University of Kassel (Germany), University of Göttingen (Germany), University of Hohenheim (Germany), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK, Germany)

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