Restoring degraded landscapes and fragile food systems in sub-Saharan Africa: synthesis of best practices
Tilahun Amede, Anthony Whitbread
Abstract
Communities in the dryland systems of East Africa regularly suffer from the devastating \nimpacts of climate variability and change, commonly manifested through torrential floods \nand recurrent droughts. More than 50% of the natural disasters recorded in East African \nregion have occurred during the past decade affecting nearly 30 million people. For instance, \nin Ethiopia as recently as 2017, more than 5.6 million people were categorized as being in \neither crisis or emergency situations and requiring urgent humanitarian assistance (WFP, \n2017). Such communities, already struggling to cope with the impacts of unpredictable weather, \nwill face a daunting task in adapting to future climate change unless they adapt improved \nlandscape management practices.