A review of environmental droughts: Increased risk under global warming?

SM Vicente-Serrano, SM Quiring, M Peña-Gallardo… - Earth-Science …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
This article reviews current drought effects on environmental systems. It stresses the need
for considering environmental drought as a relevant type to be included in drought …

Drought under global warming: a review

A Dai - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews recent literature on drought of the last millennium, followed by an update
on global aridity changes from 1950 to 2008. Projected future aridity is presented based on …

[HTML][HTML] Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options

B Shiferaw, K Tesfaye, M Kassie, T Abate… - Weather and climate …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Rainfall over the African continent from the 19th through the 21st century

SE Nicholson, C Funk, AH Fink - Global and planetary change, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Most of the African continent is semi-arid and hence prone to extreme variations in rainfall
from year to year. The extreme droughts that have plagued the Sahel and eastern Africa are …

Climate change: a friend or foe to food security in Africa?

RB Pickson, E Boateng - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022‏ - Springer
Extreme climate change is posing an increasing threat to human welfare across countries.
Specifically, the devastating floods coupled with the looming spectre of drought are argued …

Observations of climate change among subsistence-oriented communities around the world

V Savo, D Lepofsky, JP Benner, KE Kohfeld… - Nature Climate …, 2016‏ - nature.com
The study of climate change has been based strongly on data collected from instruments,
but how local people perceive such changes remains poorly quantified. We conducted a …

The West African Sahel: A review of recent studies on the rainfall regime and its interannual variability

SE Nicholson - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

Impacts of climate change on water resources in southern Africa: A review

S Kusangaya, ML Warburton, EA Van Garderen… - … of the Earth, Parts a/b/c, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that there is
consensus that the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases will result in climate change …

Climate change and variability in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of current and future trends and impacts on agriculture and food security

JH Kotir - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2011‏ - Springer
Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has been portrayed as the most vulnerable region to the
impacts of global climate change because of its reliance on agriculture which is highly …

Large mammal population declines in Africa's protected areas

ID Craigie, JEM Baillie, A Balmford, C Carbone… - Biological …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Protected areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of global conservation efforts but their
performance in maintaining populations of their key species remains poorly documented …