Conference in Zimbabwe on climate change
Call for Conference Papers: Coping with Drought and Climate Change Project
Deadline: 30 June 2012National Climate Change Adaptation Symposium
Theme: Building Climate Resilient Rural Communities / Past, Present, FutureThe Environmental Management Agency with support from the UNDP is pleased to announce the call for papers for a national climate change adaptation symposium being organised under the EMA-UNDP/GEF Coping with Drought and Climate Change project. The symposium will be held in Harare from 6 to 7 June 2012. The symposium seeks to encourage dissemination and sharing of knowledge on climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe, and on ways in which the country can build resilience to impacts of environmental change on agriculture and food security.
Those with case studies on interventions that promise to build the resilience of agriculture to impacts of drought and climate change including variability, land degradation and desertification are invited t submit an abstract (250) words on any of the themes below by 16th March, 2012. Please include a paper title, author(s) names and affiliations, and a maximum of 50 words statement of how the paper fits into the conference theme. If the abstract is accepted, then the author(s) will be invited to submit a full paper (not exceeding 3000 words) by 30 June 2012. Please email your submission in either MS Word or PDF format to cwd [at] ecoweb [dot] co [dot] zw
Case studies may cover the following themes and related issues:
Theme 1: Evidence and impacts of climate change, drought, land degradation and
desertification in Zimbabwe
Theme 2: Roles of local and indigenous knowledge systems in addressing drought,
climate change, land degradation and desertification
Theme 3: Climate early warning systems and adaptation
Theme 4: Building climate resilience in agriculture (case studies from pilot projects
and research)
Theme 5: Adaptation costs, target, metrics, policy and financing