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The endeavour culminated in the "Odawna Flood Resilience Project," a multifaceted approach aimed at mitigating the devastating impact of recurrent floods.
Modern Ghana.com
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This climate and health vulnerability assessment (CHVA) aims to assist decision-makers in Ghana with planning effective adaptation measures to deal with climate-related health risks.
A woman who sells water on the street in Accra, Ghana, carries her load balanced on her head.
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Ghana’s meteorological agency and the state’s health service have issued warnings about a period of very high temperatures expected in the first half of 2024 around the country. Ghana’s experience is part of a global phenomenon of record temperatures.
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The authors measured the prevalence of food insecurity, investigating significant predictors and geospatial clustering and explored community perceptions around climate change, food insecurity and health.
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This paper explores the effect of institutional coordination on managing flood risk in two cities plagued by flooding.
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This study aims to assess flood risk (in space and time until the year 2100) for the agricultural system, in the White Volta Basin in northern Ghana.
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Dr Hettie Arwoh Boafo, Research Officer, Invasive Species Management, based at CABI's centre in Ghana, is the winner of the Carol Ellison Science Award. She will use her £2,000 grant to study natural enemies of the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) in Ghana.
Ghana News Agency
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Using a qualitative research approach and drawing on semi-structured interviews with 20 practitioners in Ghana, the study examined practitioner insights into urban resilience and the implications for urban resilience theory and practice.

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