Impacts Of Changing Pastoral Strategies On Environmental Resources And Livelihoods In Tanzania S Lake Victoria Basin
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Impacts Of Changing Pastoral Strategies On Environmental Resources And Livelihoods In Tanzania S Lake Victoria Basin
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Author : Elliott Phillemons Niboye
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Impacts Of Changing Pastoral Strategies On Environmental Resources And Livelihoods In Tanzania S Lake Victoria Basin written by Elliott Phillemons Niboye and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Land tenure in pastoral and agro pastoral areas of Tanzania is under stress. The stress emanates mainly from changing natural and demographic environments. Other underlying causes are social, economic and political changes. In the past three to four decades, both pastoral and agro-pastoral areas have been experiencing rapid population increase, with a national mean population growth rate estimated at 3 per cent per annum (Kurian 1992). This has increased demand for cultivation lands, forcing pastoralists and agro-pastoralists to more marginal areas and triggering off in some cases environmental degradation process. These processes are paralleled by overall climatic changes with concomitant increasing droughts. The combined effect of these processes has culminated into a general decline of pastoral and agro-pastoral communityis welfare and increased livelihood insecurity. This study explored the impacts of these changes in agro-pastoral land use on the physical environment as well as livelihood and welfare of the community in Missungwi District.
Sustainable Intensification To Advance Food Security And Enhance Climate Resilience In Africa
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Author : Rattan Lal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-10
Sustainable Intensification To Advance Food Security And Enhance Climate Resilience In Africa written by Rattan Lal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with Nature categories.
This 32-chapter volume represents the core of several oral and poster presentations made at the conference. In addition to Introduction and Conclusion sections, the book is thematically divided into 7 sections, namely, 1) Land Use and Farming Systems, 2) Effects of Climate Change on Crop Yield, 3) Soil Nutrient and Water Management for Carbon Sequestration, 4) Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands through Forestry and Agroforestry, 5) Management of Animal Production for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 6) Smallholder Adaptation to Climate Change, and 7) Economic, Social and Policy Issues. It addresses these themes in the context of sustainable intensification (SI). It implies increasing agronomic production from the existing land while improving/restoring its quality and decreasing the C or environmental footprint. Simply put, SI means producing more from less.
Conservation Agriculture In Africa
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Author : Saidi Mkomwa
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Conservation Agriculture In Africa written by Saidi Mkomwa and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Nature categories.
Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts on the environment and food system. In addition, agricultural land use in Africa today faces major challenges including increased costs, climate change and a need to transform to more sustainable production intensification systems. Conservation Agriculture has emerged as a major alternative sustainable climate smart agriculture approach in Africa and has spread to many African countries in the past decade as more development and research, including in sustainable mechanization, has enabled its extension and uptake. It is key to transforming Africa's agriculture and food system given its ability to restore soil health, biodiversity and productivity of millions of smallholder farms as well as larger-scale farms. This book is aimed at all agricultural stakeholders in the public, private and civil sectors in Africa engaged in supporting the transformation of conventional tillage agriculture to Conservation Agriculture. The book will be of interest to: researchers, academics, students, development stakeholders, public and private sector investors and policy makers as well as institutional libraries across the world.
Ossrea Bulletin
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Ossrea Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social sciences categories.
Browsing On Fences
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Author : Michele Nori
language : en
Publisher: IIED
Release Date : 2008
Browsing On Fences written by Michele Nori and has been published by IIED this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Arid regions categories.
Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa
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Author : Zebhe Yanda
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2016-12-29
Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa written by Zebhe Yanda and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-29 with Social Science categories.
Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa provides systematic and robust empirical investigations on the impact of climate change on pastoral production systems, as well as participating in the ongoing debate over the efficacy of traditional pastoralism. This book is an initial product of the Project Building Knowledge to Support Climate Change Adaptation for Pastoralist Communities in East Africa implemented by the Centre for Climate Change Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam with support from the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa. Traditional pastoralism has proved to be a resilient and unique system of adaptations in a dynamic process of unpredictable climatic variability and continuous human interactions with the natural environment in dryland ecosystems. Pastoral adaptations and climate-induced innovative coping mechanisms have strategically been embedded in the indigenous social structures and resource management value systems. Pastoral livelihoods have, nevertheless, become increasingly vulnerable to climate change impacts as a result of prolonged marginalization and harmful external interventions. The negative effect of global climate change has been an added dimension to the already prevailing crisis in the pastoral livelihood system, which is substantially driven by non-climatic factors of internal and external pressures of change such as population growth, bad governance and shrinking rangelands lost to competing activities.
Impacts Of Climate Variability On Livelihoods Of Pastoral Communities
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Author : Chamliho Martin
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2017-06-16
Impacts Of Climate Variability On Livelihoods Of Pastoral Communities written by Chamliho Martin and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with categories.
Climate variability and change pose a significant threat to the livelihoods of more than three quarter of Tanzanian population including pastoralism. Compared to many other livelihoods activities, negative impacts of climate variability and change is mostly felt by pastoral households because at least 50 percent of household gross revenue including income and consumption come from livestock or livestock -related activities. This book looks on the people's perception and effects of climate variability on people's livelihoods. It looks among other things local knowledge experience and interaction with local environment which help to explain the pattern of climate variability and other stress factors experienced in their areas. Thus local people observations on climate variability should be considered and integrated with scientific knowledge towards forming climate variability adaptation strategies and policies.
Pastoralism In Africa S Drylands
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
language : en
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Release Date : 2018-10-29
Pastoralism In Africa S Drylands written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and has been published by Food & Agriculture Org. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Pastoral livestock production is crucial to the livelihoods and the economy of Africa’s semiarid regions. It developed 7,000 years ago in response to long-tern climate change. It spread throughout Northern Africa as an adaptation to the rapidly changing and increasingly unpredictable arid climate. It is practiced in an area representing 43% of Africa’s land mass in the different regions of Africa, and in some regions it represents the dominant livelihoods system. It covers 36 countries, stretching from the Sahelian West to the rangelands of Eastern Africa and the Horn and the nomadic populations of Southern Africa, with an estimate of 268 million pastoralists. The mobility of pastoralists exploiting the animal feed resources along different ecological zones represents a flexible response to a dry and increasingly variable environment. It allows pastoral herds to use the drier areas during the wet season and more humid areas during the dry season. It ensures pastoral livestock to access sufficient high-quality grazing and create economic value. The objectives of this report are to investigate the current situation of pastoralism and the vulnerability context in which pastoralism currently functions and to outline the policy, resilience programming, and research areas of intervention to enhance the resilience of pastoral livelihoods systems. Scholarly views of pastoralism’s ecological impact have grown more positive since the early 1990s, when a new understanding of dryland dynamics led to the so-called new rangeland paradigm. The new rangeland paradigm represents a shift in the wider discourse on pastoralism from the earlier debates based on the “tragedy of the commons.” The new rangeland paradigm has provided a more comprehensive understanding of the drylands and shown that mobility is an appropriate strategy to exploit the natural resource base in these areas. In recent decades, the adaptability and mobility of pastoralism in relation to resource variability have been undermined by factors that are embedded in the institutional environment and policy that shape the vulnerability context of pastoralism. The report analyzes five factors that undermine the pastoral livelihoods resilience and the implications of these factors for the viability of pastoralism. On the basis of the analysis of vulnerability contexts that shape pastoralism, the report identifies interventions for increasing pastoral resilience.
Climate Change 2014 Impacts Adaptation And Vulnerability Regional Aspects
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Author : Christopher B. Field
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-29
Climate Change 2014 Impacts Adaptation And Vulnerability Regional Aspects written by Christopher B. Field and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-29 with Business & Economics categories.
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.
Ambivalence And Contradiction
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Author : A. Z. Mattee
language : en
Publisher: IIED
Release Date : 2006
Ambivalence And Contradiction written by A. Z. Mattee and has been published by IIED this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Arid regions categories.