With climate change being one of the most severe challenges
to Africa in the 21st century, West Africa needs to develop
effective adaptation and mitigation measures.
WASCAL, the West African Science Service Center on Climate
Change and Adapted Land Use, is a large-scale researchfocused
climate service center with headquarters in Accra
(Ghana) and a research competence center (CoC) in
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).
By the 10 member countries, WASCAL is mandated to tackle
the challenges related to climate change and ultimately
enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to
climate change and increased variability. It does so by
strengthening the research infrastructure and capacity in West
Africa related to climate change and by pooling the expertise of
ten West African countries and Germany.
WASCAL conducts research in the fields of climate, land use,
agriculture, ecosystems, markets, livelihoods, and risk
management. The center concurrently envisages establishing
six observation networks, and works towards developing a
range of data products and services
