ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a preliminary way some of the linkages between drought, desertification, famine, and the seasons. It also explores the stress that the different seasons produce for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapter considers different types of drought, as well as the effects that droughts might have on the seasonal rhythm of agricultural activities and thus on the usual hardships that farmers and their families face. It examines the relationship between drought and desertification and drought and famine. The rhythm of the seasons is something to which every developed and developing society has had to accommodate its climate-dependent activities. Department of Agriculture of the effects of weather on the food balance situation in sub-Saharan Africa appears to be misleading, as suggested by the following chart. Famine refers to local, regional, or access to food that disrupt community well-being and place segments of the population at considerable risk to hunger-related increases in morbidity and mortality.
