@article{1443996,
      recid = {1443996},
      author = {Awange, Joseph L.,},
      title = {Food insecurity & hydroclimate in Greater Horn of  Africa : potential for agriculture amidst Extremes /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2022},
      abstract = {This book will benefit users in food security,  agriculture, water management, and environmental sectors.  It provides the first comprehensive analysis of Greater  Horn of Africa (GHA)'s food insecurity and hydroclimate  using the state-of-the-art Gravity Recovery and Climate  Experiment (GRACE) and its Follow-on (GRACE-FO), centennial  precipitation, hydrological models and reanalysis products.  It is here opined that GHA is endowed with freshwater  (surface and groundwater) being home to the world's second  largest freshwater body (Lake Victoria) and the greatest  continental water towers (Ethiopian Highlands) that if  properly tapped in a sustainable way, will support its  irrigated agriculture as well as pastoralism. First,  however, the obsolete Nile treaties that hamper the use of  Lake Victoria (White Nile) and Ethiopian Highland (Blue  Nile) have to be unlocked. Moreover, GHA is bedevilled by  poor governance and the donor-assistance syndrome; and in  2020-2021 faced the so-called ``triple threats" of desert  locust infestation, climate variability/change impacts and  COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, climate extremes influence its  meagre waters leading to perennial food insecurity. Coupled  with frequent regional and local conflicts, high population  growth rate, low crop yield, invasion of migratory pests,  contagious human and livestock diseases (such as HIV/AIDs,  COVID-19 & Rift Valley fever) and poverty, life for more  than 310 million of its inhabitants simply becomes  unbearable. Alarming also is the fact that drought-like  humanitarian crises are increasing in GHA despite recent  progress in its monitoring and prediction efforts.  Notwithstanding these efforts, there remain challenges  stemming from uncertainty in its prediction, and the  inflexibility and limited buffering capacity of the  recurrent impacted systems. To achieve greater food  security, therefore, in addition to boosting GHA's  agricultural output, UN Office for the Coordination of  Humanitarian Affairs suggest that its inhabitants must  create more diverse and stable means of livelihood to  insulate themselves and their households from external  shocks. This is a task that they acknowledge will not be  easy as the path ahead is trewn with obstacles namely;  natural hazards and armed conflicts. Understanding GHA's  food insecurity and its hydroclimate as presented in this  book is a good starting point towards managing the impacts  of the natural hazards on the one hand while understanding  the impacts associated with extreme climate on GHA's  available water and assessing the potential of its surface  and groundwater to support its irrigated agriculture and  pastoralism would be the first step towards coping with  drought on the other hand. The book represents a  significant effort by Prof Awange in trying to offer a  comprehensive overview of the hydroclimate in the Greater  Horn of Africa (GHA). Prof Eric F. Wood, NAE (USA); FRSC  (Canada); Foreign member, ATSE (Australia).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1443996},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91002-0},
}