Agricultural Drought in Ethiopia - Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - page 229

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Fig ure 17.1 Frequency of agricultural droughts in Ethiopia during the (a) first (February-
M ay) and (b) second (July-September) rainy season.

H istory of Droughts or Famines in Ethiopia
Information sources for African droughts are mainly from local records,
archived data, historical texts, traveler's dairies, European settlers' notes,
and folk songs. The historical reports of drought are mostly qualitative
in nature. The National Meteorological Services Agency (NMSA, 1996a),
Workineh (1987), Mesfin (1984), and Pankhurst (1984) attempted to col-
lect and document the history of droughts and famine and their impact
on various administrative regions of Ethiopia from different national and
international documents. Analyses of the chronological events of Ethiopian
droughts and famines have been divided into four parts (NMSA, 1996a).
The analysis contained some interesting features. During the period from