Water research in Africa

Workshop on Solutions for a Water Secure East Africa in 2050

Participants explore mid to long term water resources management and planning for Eastern Africa More

I Stakeholder Workshop Zambezi Basin

IIASA participates in the II Zambezi Basin Stakeholder Forum "Benefits of Co-operation and Basin-wide Planning in the Management and Development of Shared Water Resources" More

Innovative tool allows continental-scale water, energy, and land system modeling

A new large-scale hydroeconomic model, developed by a team at IIASA, will allow researchers to study water systems across whole continents, looking at sustainability of supply and the impacts of water management on the energy and agricultural sectors. More

Publications

Luan, Y., Zhu, W., Cui, X., Fischer, G., Dawson, T.P., Shi, P., & Zhang, Z. (2018). Cropland yield divergence over Africa and its implication for mitigating food insecurity. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 24, 707-734. 10.1007/s11027-018-9827-7.

Burtscher, R. , Langan, S. , Tramberend, S. , & Burek, P. (2018). Solutions for a water secure East Africa in 2050 Workshop on mid- to long-term water resources management and planning in Eastern Africa December 4-6, 2017 Entebbe, Uganda. IIASA Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA

Burek, P. , Kahil, T. , Parkinson, S., Satoh, Y., & Wada, Y. (2018). Integrated modeling for assessing water-energy-land nexus - Application of a hydrological and hydro-economic modeling framework for the Zambezi basin. In: Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, 20-24 May, 2018, Chiba, Japan.

Kanyerere, T., Tramberend, S. , Levine, A.D., Mokoena, P., Mensah, P., Chingombe, W., Goldin, J., Sumbul, F., et al. (2018). Chapter 6. Water Futures and Solutions: Options to Enhance Water Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Systems Analysis Approach for Complex Global Challenges. Eds. Mensah, P., Katerere, D., Hachigonta, S. & Roodt, A., pp. 93-110 Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-71485-110.1007/978-3-319-71486-8_6.

Parkinson, S., Kahil, M., Wada, Y. , Krey, V. , Byers, E. , Johnson, N., Burek, P. , Satoh, Y., et al. (2017). Hydro-economic modeling of integrated solutions for the water-energy-land nexus in Africa. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 11-15 December 2015, New Orleans.

Burtscher, R. (2017). IIASA’s Water Futures and Solutions Initiative, Opportunities for African Lake and River Basin Organisations. In: Workshop organised by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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