Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands

Published 2016
Type Reports
Theme Environment, Livelihood
Language English
Pages: 299
Uploader Sophie Simiyu
Publisher(s) World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
Sector(s)
Location(s) Sub-saharan Africa, East Africa, West Africa
Author(s) Cervigni, Raffaello, and Michael Morris, editors.
Disaster(s) drought
Rights International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank
Source: World Bank
Find more on these topics Capacity development, drought, Food security & agriculture, Livehood
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The report explores that a set of interventions that could help reduce the impact of drought by about half in Africa’s drylands. The publication focuses on a subset of countries in East and West Africa that contain large arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid areas and are home to over 300 million people.Frequent and severe shocks, especially droughts, already limit livelihood opportunities, undermine efforts to eradicate poverty, and require emergency aid. The future promises to be even more challenging: population growth and an expansion of drylands due to climate change could increase the number of people living in a challenging environment by up to 70 percent by 2030.