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Ocean

Objectives:

  1. Strengthen African capacities in ocean monitoring and forecasting at national, regional, and pan-african levels.
  2. Develop regional autonomy through Regional Centres of Excellence (RCoEs) for locally producing and utilizing ocean data and forecasts.
  3. Enable tailored digital ocean services for sustainable marine ecosystem management and hazard mitigation.
  4. Increase policymaker awareness of innovative decision-support tools for coastal zone management.  

Duration: 2025-2028

Budget: €7 million

Lead organisation: Mercator Ocean International leads the initiative through its Ocean Prediction Decade Collaborative Centre, leveraging its expertise as the implementer of the EU Copernicus Marine Service and its role in the EU Digital Twin Ocean Programme.

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Irrigation (areas of concern)
Irrigation enables farmers to increase crop production by reducing their dependence on natural rainfall. It is considered a vital part of ensuring food security in the future. Yet it also causes exten...
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African Hydrobasins
HydroBASINS represents a series of vectorized polygon layers that depict sub-basin boundaries at a global scale. The goal of this product is to provide a seamless global coverage of consistently sized...
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