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Research outputs: DROUGHTS
2021 Drought risk-reduction and gender dynamics in communal cattle farming in southern Zimbabwe
The severity and frequency of climate change-induced weather events pose a serious threat to livelihoods in rural Africa where crop producti...
2020 Drought disaster management: lessons from the Western Cape
The extreme drought that affected Cape Town in 2016???18 was unprecedented for a major metropolitan region in South Africa. Ameliorative int...
Download this report2020 Neighbourhood responses to drought in the Western Cape
An extreme drought event occurred in the Western Cape when the mean level of water supply dams declined to 28% of capacity in August 2017. O...