Global warming status in the African continent: sources, challenges, policies, and future direction

H Bedair, MS Alghariani, E Omar, QA Anibaba… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Africa is the second largest continent after Asia, having a larger than 30 million km2 area.
Doubtlessly, one of the biggest ecological and societal problems of the twenty-first century is …

Evolution of floods: From ancient times to the present times (ca 7600 BC to the present) and the future

AN Angelakis, AG Capodaglio, M Valipour… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Floods are one of the most dangerous natural disasters, causing great destruction, damage,
and even fatalities worldwide. Flooding is the phenomenon of a sudden increase or even …

Threat of low-frequency high-intensity floods to global cropland and crop yields

J Han, Z Zhang, J Xu, Y Chen, J Jägermeyr, J Cao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Flood hazards pose a significant threat to agricultural production. Agricultural adaptations
tend to be prevalent and systematic in high-frequency flood (HFF) areas but neglected in low …

Flood exposure and pregnancy loss in 33 developing countries

C He, Y Zhu, L Zhou, J Bachwenkizi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Floods have affected billions worldwide. Yet, the indirect health impacts of floods on
vulnerable groups, particularly women in the developing world, remain underexplored …

[HTML][HTML] Flood risk and household losses: Empirical findings from a rural community in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

M Yaseen, SE Saqib, S Visetnoi, JF McCauley… - International journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the effects of household-level flood risk on post-flood losses in
Pakistan. Pakistan experienced devastating flooding, leading to numerous fatalities …

Could flooding undermine progress in building climate-resilient crops?

EN Ngumbi - Trends in Plant Science, 2024 - cell.com
Flooding threatens crop productivity, agricultural sustainability, and global food security. In
this article I review the effects of flooding on plants and highlight three important gaps in our …

Linking flood risk mitigation and food security: An analysis of land-use change in the metropolitan area of Rome

D Marino, M Palmieri, A Marucci, M Soraci, A Barone… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Land consumption and climate change have intensified natural disasters in urban areas. In
response to these emergencies under the European 2030 Agenda, Sustainable …

Contributing factors to the looming food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for policy insight

KO Ouko, MO Odiwuor - Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The food price crisis of 2007–2008 and the recent resurgence of food prices have focused
increasing attention on the causes and consequences of food price volatility in international …

Drought versus flood: What matters more to the performance of Sahel farming systems?

NA Elagib, IS Al Zayed, M Khalifa… - Hydrological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent climate change has brought new patterns of extreme events in terms of both drought
and heavy rainfall to the drought‐prone African Sahel. The effects of these recent extreme …

Determinants of rural households' intensity of flood adaptation in the Fogera Rice plain, Ethiopia: evidence from generalised Poisson regression

K Ndue, MM Baylie, P Goda - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Effective adaptation to flooding risk depends on careful identification and combinations of
strategies which, in turn, depends on knowledge of the determinants of flood adaptation. The …