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Atlas of African Protected Areas
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FACES of the OCEAN video campaign
The OPERA project, as part of the ArcX Ocean component, is calling on scientists, innovators, youth leaders, and ocean lovers from Europe and around the world to share real-world actions for ocean protection and sustainable management. 
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First annual meeting of the RCoE for Biodiversity and Forests
The meeting aimed to chart a transformative roadmap for the sustainable management of the continent’s vast environmental resources and rich biodiversity (including forests, water bodies and wildlife) through data-driven, science-backed solutions and approaches.
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5th international conference on solar technologies and hybrid mini-grids to improve energy access
The Africa Knowledge Platform team presented an overview of the platform and the energy-related decision support systems such as the Clean Energy Access (CEA) tool during the
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OBAPAO Consortium, COMIFAC and RCMRD to host Sub-regional CBD Centres for Scientific and Technical Cooperation
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Parallel event on Agroecology at the Tropical Summit
The main objectives of the Tropical Summit (4-8 November 2024, Lisbon) were to promote the transfer of knowledge, stimulate multidisciplinary collaboration and the involvement of stakeholders, and contribute to the co-creation and innovative projects, capitalizing and densifying existing initiatives and collaboration platforms for the rapid implementation of tangible and robust...
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Economic development key to reducing Africa’s crop water footprint
Africa’s water efficiency would increase by 34% in 2030 as compared to 2016 due to an expected 60% increase in per capita GDP, according to research. 
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Regional Multi-actor Research Network Project Inception Meeting (13th - 15th March 2024) - Kampala
The Africa Knowledge Platform and the Regional Centres of Excellence program will be presented at the Regional Multi-actor Research Network Project Inception Meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
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Africa Knowledge Platform & Regional Centres of Excellece for the Green Transition Program.
We are pleased to announce that the Africa Knowledge Platform (AKP) will support the Transversal Component of the Regional Centres of Excellence for the Green Transition Program.
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What's New
Local effect of electricity access on stunting (GWR)
This dataset contains the local Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) coefficients that estimate the relationship between electricity access and child stunting across Uganda. These coefficients all...
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Under-5 children - Uganda
This dataset provides estimates of the total number of under-5 children per grid cell, for Uganda. The data come from the WorldPop R2025A, version v1 release. The dataset is available in GeoTIFF forma...
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Population - Uganda
Constrained estimates of the total number of people per spatial unit, derived from high-resolution population distribution data produced by the WorldPop Global Demographic Data project. These estimate...
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Global Gridded Relative Deprivation Index (GRDI)
The Global Gridded Relative Deprivation Index (GRDI) characterizes the relative levels of multidimensional deprivation and poverty, where a value of 100 represents the highest level of deprivation and...
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Stunting prevalence (under-5 children)
This layer shows the percentage of stunting among children under 5 years of age, a form of chronic undernutrition reflected in low height-for-age. Stunting can result from prolonged food insecurity, p...
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Crop diversity - number of crop types
number of crop types (Crop richness)
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