Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the
era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Multiple
biophysical, political, and socioeconomic stresses interact to increase the region's …

Fluctuating and extreme weather patterns are acute indicators of climate change and these
patterns modify tourist activities. The tourism industry is thus considered highly vulnerable to …

Agriculture and the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are highly sensitive to climatic
variability. Drought, in particular, represents one of the most important natural factors …

Research on climate change adaptation has increased in number and significance since the
1970s. Yet, the volume of information on adaptation is now difficult to manage given its vast …

There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from
a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global …

Human systems will have to adapt to climate change. Understanding of the magnitude of the
adaptation challenge at a global scale, however, is incomplete, constrained by a limited …

This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes,
especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on …

Effects of climate change tend to be more severe where people rely on weather dependent
rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods. In rural mountain communities with limited livelihood …

Adaptation has emerged as an important area of research and assessment among climate
change scientists. Most scholarly work has identified resource constraints as being the most …