Browsing Journals by Subject "Drought"
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Adaptation to drought in arid and semi-arid environments: Case of the Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)Small-scale rain-fed agriculture is the main livelihood in arid to semi-arid regions of subSaharan Africa. The area is characterised by erratic rainfall and frequent droughts, making the capacity for coping with temporal ... -
Are cash transfers the panacea to local involvement in humanitarian decision-making? Evidence from World Vision projects in Umzingwane
(OASIS, 2019)Cash transfers are increasingly becoming a preferred mode of alleviating human suffering particularly in drought-affected communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The transition from conditional to unconditional cash transfer ... -
Coping with drought: reflection of communal cattle farmers in Umzingwane district in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)The frequency of drought presents huge challenges to rural farming communities in rural Africa. To circumvent negatives of drought, rural Zimbabwean farmers have devised coping strategies some of which are detrimental to ... -
Ecological vulnerability indicators to drought: case of communal farmers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Estimation of ecological drought vulnerability indicators is the important step for drought mitigation management. This article identified and estimated ecological drought vulnerability indicators among communal farmers ... -
Impact of climate change on primary agriculture, water sources and food security in Western Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Climate change is undoubtedly one of the biggest crises that humanity is facing today. There is a robust scientific consensus that human-induced climate change is occurring not only in the Western Cape but around the world. ... -
Integrated drought monitoring framework for Eswatini applying standardised precipitation index and normalised difference vegetation index
(OASIS, 2020)In the last decade, Eswatini has been affected by moderate to severe droughts, leading to huge impacts on the economic, environmental and societal sectors. The frequency and magnitude of drought have also increased, ... -
Integrating Standard Precipitation Index and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index for near-real-time drought monitoring in Eswatini
(OASIS, 2019)Eswatini, as the rest of southern Africa, is being frequented by drought over the last decade, and modelling experts are predicting that drought years will become more and severe. The expected increase in extreme climatic ... -
Monitoring droughts in Eswatini: a spatiotemporal variability analysis using the Standard Precipitation Index
(OASIS, 2019)The spatiotemporal analysis of drought is of great importance to Eswatini as the country has been facing recurring droughts with negative impacts on agriculture, the environment and the economy. In 2016, the country ... -
Natural disasters in African countries : what can we learn about them?
(2010)Problems posed by disasters have become increasingly important for all African governments. Every year a variety of disasters occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa and these are becoming more prevalent. This article presents an ...