Description: When drought occur, they result in a larger proportion of the population being affected by drought than by other disasters. Drought disasters account for less than 20 percent of all disaster occurrences in Africa, but they account for more than 80 percent of all people affected by natural disasters in the continent.
Published in: Drought Risk Reduction Framework and Practices: Contributing to the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action. 2009.
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