Possible futures for rural East Africa under a changing climate: HyCRISTAL climate narrative rural infographic and Brief

Burgin, L., Walker, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-8604, Cornforth, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4379-9556, Rowell, D., Marsham, J., Semazzi, F., Sabiti, G., Ainslie, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7549-7643, Araujo, J., Ascott, M., Clegg, D., Clenaghan, A., Lapworth, D., Lwiza, K., Macdonald, D., Petty, C. and Wainwright, C., (2019) Possible futures for rural East Africa under a changing climate: HyCRISTAL climate narrative rural infographic and Brief. Report. Zenodo - CERN Repository doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3257288

Abstract/Summary

The stories on the infographic and detailed in the accompanying brief describe three possible futures for rural East Africa in 2050. How the climate will change in the coming decades is uncertain, so three different plausible futures are included to demonstrate this range. These futures do not cover every possible outcome projected by climate models. The stories also describe some of the resulting impacts that could be experienced in rural areas. However, these impacts will vary across the region due to a range of local factors.