This review examines several aspects of the climate of eastern Africa. The climatic
commonality throughout the region is the frequent occurrence of drought severe enough to …

Climate change has resulted in increased vulnerability of smallholder farmers in marginal
areas of Zimbabwe where there is limited capacity to adapt to changing climate. One …

Abstract Changes in the seasonality of precipitation over Africa have high potential for
detrimental socioeconomic impacts due to high societal dependence upon seasonal rainfall …

Variation in the seasonal cycle of African rainfall is of key importance for agriculture. Here an
objective method of determining the timing of onset and cessation is, for the first time …

This study examines the projected changes in the characteristics of the El Niño Southern
Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) in terms of mean state, intensity and …

ABSTRACT This study utilizes a new 139-year rainfall record for East Africa to evaluate the
relationship between the'short rains' of October-November and four tropical indices. These …

Eastern Africa, classically presented as a major dry climate anomaly region in the otherwise
wet equatorial belt, is a transition zone between the monsoon domains of West Africa and …

Since 2015, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has experienced an unprecedented rise in acute
food insecurity (AFI), and current projections for the year 2020 indicate that more than 100 …

Drought is a slow onset, recurring and inevitable feature of South Africa's climate. This
research deconstructs the meteorological processes underlying drought and its impacts on …

Quantifying local people's perceptions to climate change, and their assessments of which
changes matter, is fundamental to addressing the dual challenge of land conservation and …