Climate-related research in Africa faces severe data constraints, as well as inequities in funding and research leadership that reduces adaptive capacity . Many countries lack regularly reporting weather stations, and data access is often limited. From 1990-2019, research on Africa received just 3.8% of climate-related research funding globally: 78% of this funding for Africa went to EU and north American institutions and only 14.5% to African institutions. The number of climate research publications with locally based authors are among the lowest globally and research led by external researchers may focus less on local priorities. Increased funding for African partners, and direct control of research design and
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