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Science and Technology in Indian Agriculture: History, Evolution and Emerging Challenges
This project is essentially a plan to write a book on the interrelationships between science, technology and agriculture in India, with specific reference to the challenges of sustainable development and climate change.
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African population exposure to extreme weather events under solar radiation modification (SRM) geoengineering
Climate change is causing extreme weather events, including droughts, floods, heat waves, and heat stress, which are threatening sectors such as food security, access to drinking water, and public health.
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Assessing the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in African montane ecosystems
The 2030 agenda for sustainable development by the United Nations emphasizes the need to protect the planet from degradation…… (UN, 2015).
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Getting water security right across Africa: recognising major dataset biases and space-time change divergence
Destouni, G., & Zarei, M. 2025. Getting water security right across Africa: recognising major dataset biases and space-time change diver...
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Local adaptation of parasite off-host stages
Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites.
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A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic bacterium from rising temperatures
Toll-Riera, Macarena, Miriam Olombrada, Francesc Castro-Giner and Andreas Wagner. 2022. A limit on the evolutionary rescue of an Antarctic b...
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The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
Cobbinah, Patrick B and Michael Addaney. (Eds.). 2019. The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa. Cham: Springer Internatio...
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Disaster-Related Resilience as Ability and Process: A Concept Guiding the Analysis of Response Behavior before, during and after Extreme Events
Bogardi, Janos J. and Alexander Fekete. 2018. Disaster-Related Resilience as Ability and Process: A Concept Guiding the Analysis of Response...
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3D Print a House for Development (3D - H - 4D): Prototyping Climate Change Adaptation in African Urban Planning
The news that a Chinese company has successfully 3D printed ten houses in 24 hours rapidly, cheaply and with a bare-bones workforce offers a window into the future for sustainable development in Africa’s urban planning.
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Nutritional Security in a Profitable and Sustainable Food System
The South African Food system is designed to ensure that the country’s population is well-nourished, that farming is a viable livelihood and that the environment is protected.
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Systems biology studies on plant desiccation tolerance for food security
Drought is the single greatest threat to world agriculture (FAO, 2008) and this is predicted to be increasingly exacerbated by the effects of global climate change.
