DROUGHT IMPACT MODELLING ON FOOD SECURITY IN AFRICA

The project provides for technical and scientific consulting, upon request by the World Food Programme, on the development of models to study the climate impact on food crops in Africa.

Such are the methodologies used by the software LEAP (Livelihoods, Early Assessment and Protection project) for drought monitoring and early warning in rural areas of Ethiopia, where ENEA has provided its support during the project design and development.

Additional goal of the collaboration is the preliminary study of LEAP interoperability with the “Africa Risk View” platform for global-scale drought monitoring.

ENEA Activities:

• Transfer of know-how and scientific support to modelling on drought impact on food security in Africa
• Supply of specialist technical documents on interoperability between the two software platforms LEAP and Africa Risk View
• Support in preparing the ducational material on technical staff training sessions to be delivered in the African countries

Status: Completed