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Enhancing resilience to landslide disaster risks through rehabilitation of slide scars by local communities in Mt Elgon, Uganda
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Mass movements are key drivers affecting the utilisation of many farmlands and consequently the livelihoods in mountains’ ecosystems. Numerous expansive landslide scars can for years remain unusable for crop farming purposes, ...
A review of studies on community based early warning systems
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
Community-based early warning systems involve community driven collection and analysis
of information that enable warning messages to help a community to react to a hazard and
reduce the resulting loss or harm. Most early ...
Social impacts of corruption upon community resilience and poverty
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Corruption at all levels of all societies is a behavioural consequence of power and greed. With no rulebook, corruption is covert, opportunistic, repetitive and powerful, reliant upon dominance, fear and unspoken codes: a ...
Building resilience to food insecurity in rural communities: Evidence from traditional institutions in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)
Many rural communities that depend on smallholder farming face food insecurity induced by climate-related disasters. In response, some communities are taking the initiative to cope and adapt to climate-related disasters. ...
Quantitative risk analysis using vulnerability indicators to assess food insecurity in the Niayes agricultural region of West Senegal
(OASIS, 2017)
There is an increasing need to develop indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to determine the robustness of response strategies over time and better understand the underlying processes. This study aimed to ...
The impact of climate change on food security in South Africa: current realities and challenges ahead
(OASIS, 2017)
This article aims to examine the impact of climate change on food security in South Africa. For this purpose, the article adopted a desktop study approach. Previous studies, reports, surveys and policies on climate change ...
Dynamics of agricultural land and the risk to food insecurity in the Niayes region of Diamniadio, West Senegal
(OASIS, 2017)
Food security is a serious challenge facing West African countries because most croplands are being degraded. Consequently, agricultural production is being exceeded by rapid population growth. This study relates the ...
Community led total sanitation for community based disaster risk reduction: A case for non-input humanitarian relief
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
Sanitation related diseases have become endemic in southern Africa resulting in increased sanitation and hygiene morbidity and mortality. The region has experienced 318 400 cases of cholera and diarrhoea outbreaks between ...
Fish farming as an innovative strategy for promoting food security in drought risk regions of Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2017)
This article examines the implementation of fish farming as an innovative and economic strategy for promoting food security and dietary diversities among vulnerable households in drought risk areas of Zimbabwe. The declining ...
Public and private partnership in disaster risk management
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
Private and public partnerships are defended by both guidelines for action and legal frameworks for disaster risk management. The objective of this study is to identify a framework for action that allows joint collaborative ...