<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Restoring degraded landscapes and fragile food systems in sub-Saharan Africa: synthesis of best practices</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">T</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Amede</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A M</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Whitbread</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Communities in the dryland systems of East Africa regularly suffer from the devastating&#13;
impacts of climate variability and change, commonly manifested through torrential floods&#13;
and recurrent droughts. More than 50% of the natural disasters recorded in East African&#13;
region have occurred during the past decade affecting nearly 30 million people. For instance,&#13;
in Ethiopia as recently as 2017, more than 5.6 million people were categorized as being in&#13;
either crisis or emergency situations and requiring urgent humanitarian assistance (WFP,&#13;
2017). Such communities, already struggling to cope with the impacts of unpredictable weather,&#13;
will face a daunting task in adapting to future climate change unless they adapt improved&#13;
landscape management practices.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Floods</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Drought</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Climate Change</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-04</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Cambridge University Press</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>