Browsing Jàmbá: 2019 Volume 11 No 1 by Subject "Drought"
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Are cash transfers the panacea to local involvement in humanitarian decision-making? Evidence from World Vision projects in Umzingwane
(OASIS, 2019)Cash transfers are increasingly becoming a preferred mode of alleviating human suffering particularly in drought-affected communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The transition from conditional to unconditional cash transfer ... -
Coping with drought: reflection of communal cattle farmers in Umzingwane district in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2019)The frequency of drought presents huge challenges to rural farming communities in rural Africa. To circumvent negatives of drought, rural Zimbabwean farmers have devised coping strategies some of which are detrimental to ... -
Ecological vulnerability indicators to drought: case of communal farmers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Estimation of ecological drought vulnerability indicators is the important step for drought mitigation management. This article identified and estimated ecological drought vulnerability indicators among communal farmers ... -
Impact of climate change on primary agriculture, water sources and food security in Western Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Climate change is undoubtedly one of the biggest crises that humanity is facing today. There is a robust scientific consensus that human-induced climate change is occurring not only in the Western Cape but around the world. ... -
Integrating Standard Precipitation Index and Normalised Difference Vegetation Index for near-real-time drought monitoring in Eswatini
(OASIS, 2019)Eswatini, as the rest of southern Africa, is being frequented by drought over the last decade, and modelling experts are predicting that drought years will become more and severe. The expected increase in extreme climatic ... -
Monitoring droughts in Eswatini: a spatiotemporal variability analysis using the Standard Precipitation Index
(OASIS, 2019)The spatiotemporal analysis of drought is of great importance to Eswatini as the country has been facing recurring droughts with negative impacts on agriculture, the environment and the economy. In 2016, the country ...