FAO Map Catalog
Soil Suitability in East Africa - ClimAfrica WP5
The soil suitability map combines various soil constraints to calculate the area share where agricultural activities are seriously restricted. The agro-edaphic suitability classification is to a large extent based on experience documented by Prof. C. Sys and others (e.g. FAO, 1978-81a; Sys and Riquier, 1980). The suitability rating is based on a comparison of a general soil requirement assessment for crop growth and prevailing edaphic conditions.
This dataset has been used to complement the survey data and included in the âClimate change predictions in Sub-Saharan Africa: impacts and adaptations (ClimAfrica)â project, Work Package 5 (WP5).
This study in WP5 aimed to identify, locate and characterize groups that are vulnerable for climate change conditions in two country clusters; one in West Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte dâIvoire, Ghana, and Togo) and one in East Africa (Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda). Data used for the study include the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) , the Multi Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and the Afrobarometer surveys for the socio-economic variables and grid level data on agro-ecological and climatic conditions.
Information on ClimAfrica project is provided in the Supplemental Information section of this metadata.
Simple
- Date ( Creation )
- 2013-08-01T22:00:00
- Edition
- First
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- WP5 deals with economic assessment of agriculture and water sector based on a Computable General Equilibrium analysis (ICES) to produce the "inaction" and the adaptation scenarios, for direct climate change impacts on agricultural activity and on the direct cost and effectiveness of adaptation strategies. The main advantage of this investigation approach is to depict the economy as a system where goods and factor markets interacts domestically and internationally. Price effects, competitiveness effects, and demand & supply adjustments triggered by impacts on the agricultural sector can thus be properly captured. Moreover, the spatially explicit and dynamic economic modeling of vulnerability will have to accommodate bio-physical vulnerabilities.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- soil
- soil suitability
- soil constraints
- edaphic conditions
- WP5
- ClimAfrica
- Tag_climafrica
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Africa
- Sudan
- South Sudan
- Uganda
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
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- Supplemental Information
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ClimAfrica is an international project funded by European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) for the period 2010-2014. The ClimAfrica consortium is formed by 18 institutions, 9 from Europe, 8 from Africa, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO).
ClimAfrica is conceived to respond to the urgent international need for the most appropriate and up-to-date tools and methodologies to better understand and predict climate change, assess its impact on African ecosystems and population, and develop the correct adaptation strategies. Africa is probably the most vulnerable continent to climate change and climate variability and shows diverse range of agro-ecological and geographical features. Thus the impacts of climate change can be very high and will greatly differ across the continent, and even within countries.
The project focus on the following specific objectives:
1. Develop improved climate predictions on seasonal to decadal climatic scales, especially relevant to SSA;
2. Assess climate impacts in key sectors of SSA livelihood and economy, especially water resources and agriculture; 3- Evaluate the vulnerability of ecosystems and civil population to inter-annual variations and longer trends (10 years) in climate;
3. Suggest and analyse new suited adaptation strategies, focused on local needs;
4. Develop a new concept of 10 years monitoring and forecasting warning system, useful for food security, risk management and civil protection in SSA;
5. Analyse the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture and water resources in SSA and the cost-effectiveness of potential adaptation measures.
The work of ClimAfrica project is broken down into the following work packages (WPs) which are closely connected. All the activities described in WP1, WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5 consider the domain of the entire South Sahara Africa region. Only WP6 has a country specific (watershed) spatial scale where models validation and detailed processes analysis are carried out.
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Resolution
- 10 Km
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- No
- Units of distribution
- ASCII format
- OnLine resource
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SOIE.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Soil Suitability in East Africa
- OnLine resource
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D_5.2.1.pdf
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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A spatially explicit assessment of specific vulnerabilities of the food system due to climate change and the identification of their causes; Technical report
- OnLine resource
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Climafrica - Climate Change Predictions In Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts And Adaptations
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Climafrica - Climate Change Predictions In Sub-Saharan Africa: Impacts And Adaptations
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- ef6e46de-00fd-4508-9e32-e52d5df1b849 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2014-07-10T14:52:35
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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