This paper reviews recent advances in, and challenges for, weather index insurance for managing drought risk in … smallholder agriculture, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa. Despite its promise to integrate local agricultural risk smoothing …

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa …

In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in … Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures … than 42% from a “normal” climate to an “extremely drought” climate. Surprisingly, only 2.5% of this effect is channeled …

closely. Drought has typically been perceived as a problem principally of agriculture and, in particular, food supply. As such … peoples and economies. The extreme vulnerability to rainfall in the arid and semiarid areas of the continent and the poor … capacity of most African soils to retain moisture result in almost 60 percent of SSA being vulnerable to drought and 30 percent …

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa …, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a …

This paper quantifies the impact of drought on household consumption for five main agroecological zones in Africa …, developing vulnerability (or damage) functions of the relationship between rainfall deficits and poverty. Damage functions are a …