Climate change, flood disaster risk and food security nexus in Northern Ghana

RA Atanga, V Tankpa - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This research reviews climate change, flood disasters impacts and food security nexus in
northern Ghana. The impacts of climate change include flood disasters which in turn affect …

Drought and its impacts on small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: a review

S Lottering, P Mafongoya… - South African Geographical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Drought frequency is expected to increase in the coming decades due to climate change.
Droughts are one of the most devastating natural disasters affecting food production, water …

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

W Steffen, J Rockström, K Richardson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
We explore the risk that self-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth System toward a
planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate at intermediate …

The impact of climate variability and change on food security in sub-saharan africa: Perspective from panel data analysis

R Affoh, H Zheng, K Dangui, BM Dissani - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the relationship between climate variables such as rainfall amount,
temperature, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission and the triple dimension of food security …

Hunger, nutrition, and precipitation: evidence from Ghana and Bangladesh

M Cooper, ME Brown, C Azzarri… - Population and …, 2019 - Springer
Changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change are expected to have major
impacts on food security and nutrition in agrarian areas in developing countries. However …

The impacts of drought and the adaptive strategies of small-scale farmers in uMsinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

SJ Lottering, P Mafongoya… - Journal of Asian and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Drought is a major challenge threatening agricultural productivity in uMsinga. The
occurrence of drought is expected to increase in coming decades, intensifying in severity …

The impact of drought on the health and livelihoods of women and children in India: A systematic review

KD Algur, SK Patel, S Chauhan - Children and Youth Services Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is expected to have severe consequences for the world, some of which are
already being felt. According to projections, in some regions, droughts will be more frequent …

Effects of drought and flood on farmer suicides in Indian states: an empirical analysis

Y Parida, DP Dash, P Bhardwaj… - Economics of disasters …, 2018 - Springer
The study examines the effects of drought and flood on farmer suicides using state-level
panel data from 17 Indian states for the period 1995–2011. The empirical estimates based …

A mixed model approach to vegetation condition prediction using artificial neural networks (ANN): case of Kenya's operational drought monitoring

C Adede, R Oboko, PW Wagacha, C Atzberger - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Droughts, with their increasing frequency of occurrence, especially in the Greater Horn of
Africa (GHA), continue to negatively affect lives and livelihoods. For example, the 2011 …

Increase in population exposure due to dry and wet extremes in India under a warming climate

R Kumar, V Mishra - Earth's Future, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dry and wet extremes affect agricultural production, infrastructure, and socioeconomic well‐
being of about 1.4 billion people in India. Despite the profound implications of dry and wet …