Assessing Rainfall Variability at Adwa District, Central Tigray, Ethiopia

Abstract

Climate variability and change are affecting the whole world (IPCC, 2007). The impacts are significantly negative on rain fed agriculture (Travis et al., 2010) on which the economies of most developing countries depend (Lamboll et al., 2011) with less adaptive capacity (Michael, 2006; Yesuf et al., 2008; UN-OHRLLS, 2009). Particularly, many low income countries, located in the tropical and sub-tropical region are vulnerable to shifting and variable climate (Joachim, 2008).