Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre | Centres of Excellence | Aga Khan University
 
Arusha Climate And Environmental Research Centre ​In March 2022 the Aga Khan University launched Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre (AKU-ACER) on its nearly four thousand acres of ecologically important land in Arusha, Tanzania. As a flagship project of the University, and with the support of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), AKU-ACER leverages the extraordinary importance of the site in terms of research opportunities in environmental science – including atmospheric sciences, sustainable agriculture and ecology, environmental chemistry, geosciences, and social sciences. The overarching objectives of AKU-ACER include advancing academic research leading to results for stakeholders and achieving increased visibility on the importance of environmental field sites that explicitly set out to develop capacity. The benefits of the research activities undertaken at AKU-ACER cut across many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to the environment and climate action, including capacity for carbon sequestration. Based on the characteristics of the site, restorative land management activities will continue and inform much of the research work as well. Going forward, the focus is to systematically study the climate impacts on human health, ecosystem services, and geophysical hazards. The rapid growth of Arusha station is expected to catalyze the establishment of the research station in Link Road and bring about the much-needed collaboration between individual researchers and AKDN entities to utilize the station to conduct interdisciplinary studies in health, environment, and social sciences. ​

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Submissions from 2025

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Spatio-temporal dynamics of water footprints of food consumption in South Korea: a decomposition analysis, Bashir Adelodun, Qudus Adeyi, Golden Odey, and Kyung Sook Choi

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The impact of international agreements and government policies on collaborative management of environmental pollution and carbon emissions in the transportation sector, Bashir Adelodun, Chukwuemeka Kingsley John, Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade, Temitope Fausat Ajibade, Pankaj Kumar, and Olaolu George Fadugba

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Prediction of spatial-temporal flood water level in agricultural fields using advanced machine learning and deep learning approaches, Adisa Hammed Akinsoji, Bashir Adelodun, Qudus Adeyi, Rahmon Abiodun Salau, Golden Odey, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Magnetron sputtering of niobium thin films onto wood biochar to increase the selectivity for electrostatic attraction of anionic brilliant blue dye, Adelício Lucas Alberto, Bárbara Luiza Brandenburg dos Santos, Marcelo Godinho, Cesar Aguzzoli, Yasmin Vieira, Luis Felipe Oliveira Silva, Bashir Adelodun, Sonaimuthu Mohandoss, Naushad Ahmad, and Guilherme Luiz Dotto

Submissions from 2024

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Rethinking food loss and waste to promote sustainable resource use and climate change mitigation in agri-food systems: A review, Bashir Adelodun, Oyebankole O. Agbelusi, Tammara Soma, Golden Odey, Qudus Adeyi, Pankaj Kumar, Fidelis Odedishem Ajibade, Madhumita Goala, and Luis Felipe Oliveira Silva

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Integrating Machine Learning Models with Comprehensive Data Strategies and Optimization Techniques to Enhance Flood Prediction Accuracy: A Review, Adisa Hammed Akinsoji, Bashir Adelodun, Qudus Adeyi, Rahmon Abiodun, Golden Odey, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Adsorption of perfluorosulfonic acids (PFSAs) on an ultrafine potato peel waste grafted β-cyclodextrin (UFPPW-β-CD), Franciele da Silva Bruckmann, Sonia Jemli, Fakhreddine Ben Amara, Bashir Adelodun, Luis Felipe Oliveira Silva, Samir Bejar, Mohammad Rizwan Khan, Naushad Ahmad, Glaydson Simões dos Reis, and Guilherme Luiz Dotto

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Conceptualizing Sustainability and Resilience in Value Chains in Times of Multiple Crises—Notes on Agri-Food Chains, Alexander Follmann, Peter Dannenberg, Nina Baur, Boris Braun, Grit Walther, Amelie Bernzen, Jan Börner, Michael Brüntrup, Martin Franz, and Emmanuel Sulle

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Human viral pathogens in the wastewater-source water-drinking water continuum: Evidence, health risks, and lessons for future outbreaks in low-income settings, Willis Gwenzi, Bashir Adelodun, Pankaj Kumar, Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade, Luis F.O. Silva, Kyung Sook Choi, Ramganesh Selvarajan, Akebe Luther King Abia, Sahar Gholipour, and Farzaneh Mohammadi

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Quantifying Resource Nexus: Virtual Water Flows, Water Stress Indices, and Unsustainable Import Fraction in South Korea's Grain Trade Landscape, Golden Odey, Bashir Adelodun, Qudus Adeyi, Akinsoji Adisa Hammed, Salau Rahmon Abiodun, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Assessment of the factors shaping the public’s perception of physical and virtual water: A case study of Korean households, Golden Odey, Bashir Adelodun, Seulgi Lee, Qudus Adeyi, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Crop Water Use and a Gravity Model Exploration of Virtual Water Trade in Ghana's Cereal Agriculture, Alexander Sessi Kosi Tette, Golden Odey, Mirza Junaid Ahmad, Bashir Adelodun, and Kyung-Sook Choi

Submissions from 2023

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Performance-Based Evaluation of CMIP5 and CMIP6 Global Climate Models and Their Multi-Model Ensembles to Simulate and Project Seasonal and Annual Climate Variables in the Chungcheong Region of South Korea, Bashir Adelodun, Mirza Junaid Ahmad, Golden Odey, Qudus Adeyi, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Investigating the causal impacts relationship between economic flood damage and extreme precipitation indices based on ARDL-ECM framework: A case study of Chungcheong region in South Korea, Bashir Adelodun, Golden Odey, Seulgi Lee, and Kyung Sook C Choi

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Spatial and temporal variability of climate extremes and their impact on maize yield in North-Central Nigeria, Khalid Adeola Adeyemi, Mirza Junaid Ahmad, Bashir Adelodun, Golden Odey, and Kyung Sook Choi

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Skin protection from solar ultraviolet radiation using natural compounds: a review, Ankit Ankit Verma, Alessandra Zanoletti, Kola Yusuff Kareem, Bashir Adelodun, Pankaj Kumar, Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade, Luis F. O. Silva, Ankur J. Phillips, Thangathurai Kartheeswaran, and Elza Bontempi

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Assessment of the Spatiotemporal Changes in the Extreme Precipitation Climate Indices over the Chungcheong Region of South Korea during 1973–2020, Hyungon Cho, Bashir Adelodun, Hyo-Jeong Kim, and Gwangseob Kim

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The voices of women and smallholder farmers in Kenya's Lamu Corridor, Ngala Chome and Emmanuel Sulle

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The voices of women and smallholder farmers in Angola's Lobito Corridor., Ana Duarte and Emmanuel Sulle

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Assessing the impact of food trade centric on land, water, and food security in South Korea, Golden Odey, Bashir Adelodun, Seulgi Lee, Khalid Adeola Adeyemi, and Kyung Sook Choi

Submissions from 2021

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Outgrowing and the politics of inclusive business models: The case of Tanzania's Kilombero Sugar Company, Emanuel Sulle

Submissions from 2020

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Bureaucrats, investors and smallholders: Contesting land rights and agro-commercialisation in the Southern agricultural growth corridor of Tanzania, Emanuel Sulle

Submissions from 2019

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Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania, Emanuel Sulle and Helen Dancer

Submissions from 2017

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Social differentiation and the politics of land: Sugar cane outgrowing in Kilombero, Tanzania, Emmanuel Sulle

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Tourism taxation, politics and territorialisation in Tanzania’s wildlife management, Emmanuel Sulle and Holti Banka