Search Results - "Indian Ocean"

Responsible fishing in the Indian ocean by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…The recently launched South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) aims to promote responsible fishing…”
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EPA's and Indian Ocean nations by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

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Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) on vegetable crops in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean): state of knowledge, control methods and prospects for management by Ryckewaert, P., Deguine, J.P., Brevault, T., Vayssières, Jean-François

“…Vegetable crops hold a key position in agricultural production in Reunion (Indian Ocean); however, many pests and diseases threaten the profitability of this agricultural sector. …”
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Improving spatiotemporal groundwater estimates after natural disasters using remotely sensed data: a case study of the Indian Ocean Tsunami by Chinnasamy, Pennan, Sunde, M.G.

“…The Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004 devastated coastal ecosystems across South Asia. …”
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Climate variability and simultaneous breadbasket yield shocks as observed in long-term yield records by Anderson, Weston, Baethgen, Walter, Capitanio, Fabian, Ciais, Philippe, Cook, Benjamin I., You, Liangzhi

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What a find! by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…website run by SIROI, the agricultural information system for the Indian Ocean region 202.60.1.2/Siroiweb.uk…”
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Shrimps in the mangrove by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Mangroves have been back in the international spotlight recently thanks to the protective role they played during the tsunami, which devastated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean in December 2004. Unfortunately though, many mangroves had already been lost…”
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Cape Verde welcomes single African market but says no to parasites by Ortet, Eva

“…Eva Ortet is Director General of Agricultural Production in the Cape Verde Ministry of Rural Development The ACP islands states are generally in the Caribbean, the Pacific or the Indian Ocean. However there are a few islands or archipelagos off the...…”
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Role of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the transport of smoke from Sumatra to the Malay Peninsula during severe non-El Nino haze events by Koplitz, S.N., Mickley, L.J., Jacob, D.J., Marlier, Miriam E., DeFries, Ruth S., Gaveau, D.L.A., Locatelli, Bruno, Reid, J.S., Xian, P., Myers, S.S.

“…Unlike most haze episodes in the Malay Peninsula in recent decades (e.g., the September 2015 event), the June 2013 haze occurred in the absence of an El Niño, during negative Indian Ocean Dipole conditions, with smoke carried eastward to the Peninsula from fires in the Riau province of central Sumatra. …”
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Mapping study on the fisheries sector in the IOC region by Hanoomanjee, Satish

“…This study was commissioned by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) to help guide the Centre’s support to the fisheries sector in the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) region in the context of CTA’s East Africa Regional Business Plan and its work on value chains. …”
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Drivers of Subseasonal Forecast Errors of the East African Short Rains by Kolstad, Erik Wilhelm, Macleod, David, Demissie, Teferi Dejene

“…We demonstrate that the initial mode of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a partial control on the rainfall error in weeks 3–4. …”
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Southern African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Mozambique by Maure, Genito A., Bila, Silena, Sibanda, Lindiwe M., Thomas, Timothy S.

“…Mozambique s diverse climate is influenced by monsoons from the Indian Ocean and the hot current of the Mozambique Canal. …”
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Workshop report: Training and Development of Downscaled Seasonal Forecasts for Pilot Districts, Kigali, Rwanda by Siebert, Asher, Kagabo, Desire M., Vuguziga, Floribert

“…Further discussions addressed longer-term collaborative work on both climatology and further seasonal prediction work, particularly with regard to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). Discussions with experts at CIAT and the Rwanda Agriculture Board also addressed the prospect of using the Water Requirement Satisfaction Index (WRSI) as a monitoring and climate/agriculture risk management tool in the future.…”
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Presentations for Implications of El Niño 2023/24 for Africa South of the Sahara by Anderson, Weston, Glauber, Joseph W., Mamun, Abdullah, You, Liangzhi, Thurlow, James, Jamali, Andrew

“…Part 1 will examine the latest scientific outlook for the 2023 El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole climate patterns. Part 2 will focus on El Niño’s impact on global markets, particularly rice markets. …”
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Blind spots obscure understanding of how forests affect human health by Rosenstock, T.S., Rowland, D., Liew, Z., Hickson, K., Zeitler, L., McMullin, S., Jamnadass, R., Ickowitz, A.

“…For example, the loss of coastal mangroves exacerbated morbidity and mortality following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami,6 and forest loss amplified the effects of the 2021 flooding across Europe,7 contributing to injury, increased prevalence of waterborne diseases, and death.…”
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Synchronous crop failures and climate-forced production variability by Anderson, W. B., Seager, R., Baethgen, W., Cane, M., You, Liangzhi

“…We find that the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), tropical Atlantic variability (TAV), and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) together account for 18, 7, and 6% of globally aggregated maize, soybean, and wheat production variability, respectively. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Trends in Precipitation, Temperature, and Extremes: A Study of Malawi and Zambia (1981–2021) by Demissie, Teferi, Gebrechorkos, Solomon H

“…The change in December–April precipitation significantly correlates with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (Indian Ocean Dipole) in Southern (Northern) Zambia and Malawi. …”
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Seasonal Climate Predictability in Ethiopia: Review of best predictor sets for subseasonal to seasonal forecasting by Takele, Robel, Tesfaye, Kindie, Sibiry Traoré, Pierre C.

“…Literature reviewed indicates an association between the seasonal climate of Ethiopia and seas surface temperature (SST) forcings over the Atlantic, Indian Oceans and, to a greater extent, over the equatorial Pacific along with associated atmospheric circulations. …”
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July–September rainfall in the Greater Horn of Africa: the combined influence of the Mascarene and South Atlantic highs by Dyer, E., Hirons, L., Taye, Meron Teferi

“…Coupled model biases are related to southern ocean warm biases in CMIP5 and western Indian Ocean warm biases in CMIP6. CMIP6 shows an improved relationship between rainfall and Turkana Jet winds and Central African westerlies across the ensemble.…”
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Diversity and taxonomy of the fern genus Vandenboschia Copel. (Hymenophyllaceae, Polypodiidae) in the Afro-Malagasy region and description of a new species by Dubuisson, J.Y., Boucheron-Dubuisson, E., Le Pechon, T., Bausero, P., Droissart, V., Deblauwe, V., Ebihara, A., Hennequin, S., Rouhan, G.

“…Vandenboschia radicans (supposedly Neotropical and African), V. speciosa (supposedly European and Macaronesian) and V. gigantea (supposedly from western Indian Ocean) are morphologically close species and often confused in collections and in floras. …”
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