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developing adaptive capacity with a focus on rural Africa
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Mid-Project Workshop
Training Sessions

The purpose of this mid-project workshop was to assess the current status of the "Food and Water Security under Global Change" project and to bring together collaborators and students from South Africa, Ethiopia and Germany. We also conducted training sessions to introduce an array of methodological tools that could address research questions relevant to the project. These include:

  1. Introduction to STATA
  2. Downloadable IMPACT model
  3. GIS 101
  4. MATLab 101
  5. Impact-Water – An Introduction
  6. Assessing agriculture drought -- drought indicators
  7. Tips and tricks related to stakeholder analysis
  8. Including water into multimarket models
  9. Estimation of vulnerability functions / shocks
  10. WEAP demonstration [example of a river basin model] with climate change analysis
  11. Production Functions
  12. Vulnerability Mapping

Copies of training materials on several of these topics are available and can be obtained on request. Send request to c.ringler@cgiar.org.

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