**2. Country and regional distribution of climate change shocks and affiliation of authors**

A total of 388 climate shocks (droughts, floods, and winds) were documented in 164 peer reviewed papers. The results show further that in terms of countries, Southern Niger recorded the highest frequency and percentage of reports of climate change shocks (n = 62, 15.97%) between 1975 and 2020. Ethiopia which is second recorded 46 or 11.85% of the shocks, Senegal next with 41 or 10.56% of the shocks and Kenya with 33 or 8.5% of the climate shocks (**Figure 1**). Regionally, West African Sahel recorded the highest number of shocks (n = 193, 49.97%), then second was East African Sahel (n = 116, 29.89%) and Central African Sahel with (n = 47, 12.11%) (**Figure 2**).

A total of 164 peer review papers were recorded for this chapter. Of this number, 55 authors are affiliated in the USA, 19 in France, 17 in the United Kingdom and 10 in Germany. These countries are countries that have colonial ties in Africa and

*Recent Climate Shocks in the Sahel: A Systematic Review DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98882*

**Figure 1.** *Percentages and frequencies per country of reported/tracked climate shocks in the Sahel from 1975 to 2020.*

**Figure 2.**

*Percentages and frequencies of reported/tracked climate shocks in various regions of the Sahel from 1975 to 2020.*

are leveraging huge research grants on the Sahel troubled region. In the context of African authorship 9 authors are from Nigeria, 6 from Ethiopia and Niger and about 4 authors from Cameroon. In general, we observe that most of the authors involved in this genre of research are affiliated out of Africa.
