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- Author: Sophie Mack Smith
- Publication Date: 07-2012
- Content Type: Working Paper
- Institution: Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract: The 2011 drought across the Horn of Africa was, in some places, the worst to hit the region for 60 years. It was first predicted about a year beforehand, when sophisticated regional early warning systems began to alert the world to the possibility of drier-than-normal conditions in key pastoral areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Northern Kenya, linked to the effects of the climatic phenomenon La NiƱa.
- Topic: Security, Development, Humanitarian Aid, Food, Famine
- Political Geography: Kenya, Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia
- Author: Simon Levine, Eva Ludi, Kindie Tesfaye
- Publication Date: 10-2011
- Content Type: Working Paper
- Institution: Oxfam Publishing
- Abstract: Ethiopia is currently ranked 11th of 233 countries and other political jurisdictions in terms of its vulnerability to physical climate impacts, and 9th in terms of overall vulnerability, which is physical impacts adjusted for coping ability (CGD, 2011). Yet little is known about its people's adaptive capacity at individual and community level, or how existing interventions influence a community's ability to adapt.
- Topic: Agriculture, Climate Change, Development, Governance
- Political Geography: Africa, Ethiopia