A5103128801- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate variability and models
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Water Resources and Sustainability
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Water resources management and optimization
- Agricultural risk and resilience
Agricultural Research Council of South Africa
2024
University of Pretoria
2018-2021
Institute for Soil, Climate and Water
2015-2021
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria
2015
The recent 2015/16 summer rainfall season in the terrestrial Southern African Development Community (SADC) region appears to be most severe since droughts of early 1980s and 1990s; with well-publicized significant impacts on agriculture food security. Impacts have been particularly concerning 2015/6 followed a poor rainy 2014/15, certain areas compounding already compromised production (total maize was, for example, down 40% relative previous 5 year average). This paper reviews climate...
The 2015–2017 summer rainfall seasons in both South and southern Africa saw drought heat stress severely impacting the livestock production sector, as well agriculture more broadly. Although region has a longstanding operational forecasting system; tailored forecasting, including that designed for declined presence use recent years. potential of such information to enable sector better cope with difficult those 2015–17 is clear. A range promising initiatives attempt move (and broader region)...