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Economic Factors Driving Africa's Climate Innovation
Interview with Calestous Juma
In an email interview with Global Ideas, [Calestous] Juma touches on the challenges and opportunities raised by climate change in Africa, the economic drivers behind a rash of innovations, the role of African universities and why dogma is holding back the continent's full research potential.
Global Ideas: Is climate awareness and research growing in Africa?
Calestous Juma: There has always been an Africa-centered climate research and innovation agenda. Because of Africa's persistent droughts and the associated famines, Africa has since the 1970s been acutely aware of the implications of climatic variability. The fact that much of its economy is based on agriculture, employing up to 70 percent of the population in many countries, has also heightened awareness about climate change....
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- Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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In an email interview with Global Ideas, [Calestous] Juma touches on the challenges and opportunities raised by climate change in Africa, the economic drivers behind a rash of innovations, the role of African universities and why dogma is holding back the continent's full research potential.
Global Ideas: Is climate awareness and research growing in Africa?
Calestous Juma: There has always been an Africa-centered climate research and innovation agenda. Because of Africa's persistent droughts and the associated famines, Africa has since the 1970s been acutely aware of the implications of climatic variability. The fact that much of its economy is based on agriculture, employing up to 70 percent of the population in many countries, has also heightened awareness about climate change....
Continue reading: http://www.dw.de/economic-factors-driving-africas-climate-innovation/a-16873261
Want to Read More?
The full text of this publication is available via the original publication source.The Author
Sonia Phalnikar
Related
Calestous Juma
- Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
- Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- Democracy
- Infrastructure technology
- Environment & Climate Change
- Natural resource management
- Environmental policy
- Sustainable development
- Energy R&D
- Science & Technology
- Science & Technology Policy
- Innovation systems
- Globalization
- Biosafety
- Biotechnology
- Information technology
- International Relations
- International development
- United Nations
- Globalization
- Educating policymakers
- Higher education policy
- Recommended
- In the Spotlight
- Most Viewed
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