In semi-arid and dry sub-humid sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), high poverty levels and a heavy reliance on small-scale rainfed agriculture make rural livelihoods... E Enfors - 《Department of Systems Ecology》 被引量: 14发表: 2009年 Living with drought in South Africa: lessons learnt from the...
Drought: In search of sustainable solutions to a persistent, `wicked' problem in South Africa. In Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: An Upstream-Downstream Perspective; Salzmann, N., Huggel, C., Nussbaumer, S.U., Ziervogel, G., Eds.; Springer International: Cham, Switzerland, 2016; pp....
China has also provided food aid and financial support to facilitate the resettlement of refugees in Uganda, many of whom came from neighboring South Sudan and the DRC.In May 2018, the Chinese government donated 5 million dollars in emergency food aid to the drought-affected communities in the ...
We draw on the methods of event attribution science and apply them to attribute the potential for NbS to moderate the impact of ACC on the Cape Town Day Zero drought (2015–2017), a very rare event and the worst in the region since 190428,29. Cape Town’s water supply is dependent on...
41. In response to water scarcity, strategies such as rainwater harvesting, drought-resistant crop varieties, and the restoration of traditional water systems like canals and terracing are employed42,43. Agroforestry, which integrates trees and shrubs into agricultural landscapes, enhances biodiversity, ...
that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality 2.4.1 Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture United Nations SDG Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food se...
and resulting in more than 800 fatalities.8In the Horn of Africa in the east of the continent, an acute drought has affected over 20 million people and led to the loss of over 2 million livestock in Kenya alone.9Projections indicate further increases in such climate-related incidents, likely...
For example, a solution built on AWS for monitoring Lake Mead drought using Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities demonstrates how these capabilities can be used to track changes in the water levels of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. The trained model is then deployed as...
Through a literature review, the top three solutions for fiood and drought hazards were found: wetlands, re/ afforestation, and changing crop types. These strategies were reviewed and validated with a MCDA-GIS methodology, through land use change (LUC) maps to depict different future scenarios. ...
A recent study on projected future changes in heatwaves, droughts, and flood impacts for 571 European cities found that whilst cities in southern Europe will suffer intensified drought conditions and increasing trend of days with extreme heatwaves, northern European cities will experience intensified ri...