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Sub-Saharan Climate Change

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Agriculture is one of key industries in both sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. In the recent few decades, agricultural production is under serious threat from severe drought, and the drought has triggered a series of chain-reactions involving important economic and social issues. To cope with various challenges, sub-Saharan Africa and Australia have already taken multiple approaches.
There is no doubt that climate is a considerable element for the agricultural production. However, along with the climate change, extreme weather tends to be more frequent and more intense that destructively affects framing. As a result, the drought occurred in sub-Saharan Africa became continual and long duration, which resulted in poor harvests. In addition, …show more content…

The practice of Drought Tolerant Maize showed excellent consequences under reduced rainfall and warm climate. Moreover, climate information and early warning system were applied in sub-Saharan Africa. They aimed to provide evidences of risk of significant changes in climate ahead and to tack action that can decrease possible risks. In contrast, because of insufficient and incomplete understanding of the impact of climate change on the agriculture, Australia introduced climate change adaptations, which covers obtaining knowledge about how the communities confront the climate change in the …show more content…

The drought has weakened the ability of farmers who produce food. Therefore, sub-Saharan Africa and Australia farmers obtained reduced income and tax revenues. Instead, food prices and the rate of unemployment were increased. Compared with sub-Saharan Africa, Australia had more severe financial problems. With an economic recession spreading in agricultural industry, Australia farmers are encumbered by debts that they cannot afford new technologies or crops.
In response to the economic crisis, sub-Saharan Africa adjusted the corresponding market system, which was input/output market development. The goal of the input/output market was to regulate prices and consumption during the drought period to minimize the loss of farmers. Furthermore, sub-Saharan Africa encouraged farmers to diversify the livelihoods to lighten stresses. Unlike sub-Saharan Africa, numerous Australia farmers tried to gain secondary off-farm employment to mitigate the burden on

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