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The Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO) includes 17 African countries* who are participating in the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) in Sub-Saharan Africa – a multi-partner, multi-institutional initiative established in 2015 aimed at strengthening institutional capacities of Science Granting Councils in the region.
Main areas of collaboration:
Overcoming challenges to sustainable renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Projecting demographic change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Advancing the methods of systems analysis
Improving water and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa and the wider region
The regional membership application was made in response to a statement of the 98th IIASA Council meeting in June 2021, which conceptualized a regional membership model aimed at bringing together multiple countries within a region, who are facing similar challenges, but may not have the means or capacity as individual countries to join IIASA as national members.
* Botswana, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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News
19 June 2023
A holistic approach to addressing food security in Africa
The African continent faces a multitude of challenges, and food security is among the most pressing. New research by an international team of researchers sheds light on the challenges and opportunities facing the African continent in securing sufficient food supplies with a particular focus on rice.
15 March 2023
Helping young Africans innovate for climate resilience
Africa is the continent that will be most adversely affected by climate change. IIASA researchers are collaborating on Yoma OR – an ambitious project aimed at helping young people grow their digital skills as a first step on a journey from learning to earning using AI, blockchain, and crowdsourcing.
24 January 2023
Supporting evidence-based policymaking in The Gambia
Researchers working on the FACE-Africa project have co-developed country-specific information and tools with Gambian food system stakeholders to evaluate possible strategies for adapting to climate change and ensuring sufficient healthy food for The Gambia. Their recommendations and key findings are now available in a new IIASA policy brief.
Events
04 December 2022 Cape Town, South Africa
IIASA 50th Anniversary event in South Africa during the World Science Forum
16 August 2022 Virtual
Systems analysis workshop in South Africa
Focus
28 June 2023
Promoting sustainable rural development in sub-Saharan Africa
Options Magazine, Summer 2023: IIASA has joined the LEAP-RE initiative to promote sustainable rural development in sub-Saharan Africa through the RE4AFAGRI project, which focuses on climate-water-energy-land-food-environment nexus modeling and renewable energy adoption.
23 June 2023
Creating feasible and sustainable solutions
Options Magazine, Summer 2023: IIASA researcher Giacomo Falcetta is dedicated to making a meaningful difference in the world by developing practical and sustainable solutions that can be readily implemented by policymakers.
04 December 2022
Celebrating 50 years of global collaboration
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.
Publications
Falchetta, G. , Semeria, F., Tuninetti, ., Giordano, V., Pachauri, S. , & Byers, E. (2023). Solar irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa: economic feasibility and development potential. Environmental Research Letters 10.1088/1748-9326/acefe5. (In Press) Theron, S.N., Midgley, S., Hochrainer-Stigler, S., Archer, E., Tramberend, S. , & Walker, S. (2023). Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa. Regional Environmental Change 23 (3) e98. 10.1007/s10113-023-02091-6. De Vos, K., Janssens, C., Jacobs, L., Campforts, B., Boere, E., Kozicka, M. , Havlik, P. , Folberth, C. , Balkovič, J. , Maertens, M., & Govers, G. (2023). Rice availability and stability in Africa under future socio-economic development and climatic change. Nature Food 10.1038/s43016-023-00770-5. Mahama, P.N-j., Kabo-bah, A.T., Falchetta, G. , Blanford, J.I., Yamba, E.I., Antwi-Agyei, P., Asiedu-Bekoe, F., Awuah, E., & Yieri, J. (2023). Leaving no disease behind: The roadmap to securing universal health security and what this means for the surveillance of infectious diseases in Ghana as a precedent for sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS ONE 18 (4) e0284931. 10.1371/journal.pone.0284931. De Vos, K., Janssens, C., Jacobs, L., Campforts, B., Boere, E., Kozicka, M. , Havlik, P. , Hemerijckx, L.-M., Van Rompaey, A., Maertens, M., & Govers, G. (2023). What about human behavior? The case of urbanization and rice in Africa. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.