Impacts Of Climate Variability On Livelihoods Of Pastoral Communities
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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 And Climate Change In East Africa
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Author : Yanda, Pius Zebhe
language : en
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Release Date : 2018-08-03
Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa written by Yanda, Pius Zebhe and has been published by Mkuki na Nyota Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-03 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.
Climate Variability Impacts On Land Use And Livelihoods In Drylands
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Author : Mahesh K. Gaur
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-08-30
Climate Variability Impacts On Land Use And Livelihoods In Drylands written by Mahesh K. Gaur and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-30 with Science categories.
This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions. Global change is more than just climate change and the ramifications of changing trade patterns (geopolitical and economic aspects), the shift to the market economy, demographic factors (population growth, urbanization and re-settlement), receive attention here. Land use change specialists, policy makers and natural resource management agencies will find the book very useful. Chapters focus on examples that are drawn from a number of sources including previously unpublished studies on the impact of climate change, markets and economics on pastoralist and dryland farming households. The key focus is to provide readers with insights into the real world implications of change (including an analysis of the drivers of change) on these vulnerable groups within dryland societies. The role of humans as agents of these changes is canvassed. A regional analysis of the world's drylands is also performed including those in Australia, Argentina, India, North America, China, North Africa, Central Asia and Southern Africa.
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.
The Palgrave Handbook Of Positive Peace
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Author : Katerina Standish
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-12-02
The Palgrave Handbook Of Positive Peace written by Katerina Standish and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Political Science categories.
This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform. It permits a comprehensive appreciation of the breadth of positive peace that engages with nonviolence, environmental sustainability, social justice and positive relationships scholarship. The work serves as a one-stop shop for scholar/practitioners interested in locating their inquiry and outputs in the field of positive peace and provides readers from a multitude of disciplines and academic departments with a comprehensive overview of the multiplicity of positive peace research in one location. In doing so, the Handbook of Positive Peace securely demarcates and recognizes the positive peace platform in social scientific and humanities academic disciplines.
Survival Of The Fittest Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa
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Author : Mary Kirkbride
language : en
Publisher: Oxfam
Release Date : 2008
Survival Of The Fittest Pastoralism And Climate Change In East Africa written by Mary Kirkbride and has been published by Oxfam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
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 And Future Impacts On Food Security
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Author : Tim Gore
language : en
Publisher: Oxfam
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Climate Change And Future Impacts On Food Security written by Tim Gore and has been published by Oxfam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Pastoralism And Development In Africa
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Author : Andy Catley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-07
Pastoralism And Development In Africa written by Andy Catley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Once again, the Horn of Africa has been in the headlines. And once again the news has been bad: drought, famine, conflict, hunger, suffering and death. The finger of blame has been pointed in numerous directions: to the changing climate, to environmental degradation, to overpopulation, to geopolitics and conflict, to aid agency failures, and more. But it is not all disaster and catastrophe. Many successful development efforts at ‘the margins’ often remain hidden, informal, sometimes illegal; and rarely in line with standard development prescriptions. If we shift our gaze from the capital cities to the regional centres and their hinterlands, then a very different perspective emerges. These are the places where pastoralists live. They have for centuries struggled with drought, conflict and famine. They are resourceful, entrepreneurial and innovative peoples. Yet they have been ignored and marginalised by the states that control their territory and the development agencies who are supposed to help them. This book argues that, while we should not ignore the profound difficulties of creating secure livelihoods in the Greater Horn of Africa, there is much to be learned from development successes, large and small. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars with an interest in development studies and human geography, with a particular emphasis on Africa. It will also appeal to development policy-makers and practitioners.
Climate Variability And Change Impacts On Livelihoods
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Author : Simachew Bantigegn
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2013-01
Climate Variability And Change Impacts On Livelihoods written by Simachew Bantigegn 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 2013-01 with categories.
Climate change is a global phenomenon. World climates have changed in the geological past, are currently changing and will change in the future. Climate is one of the key factors affecting agricultural production. Hardly a year passes when farmers in most parts of the world do not suffer from either too little or too much rainfall. Even when the amount is normal they suffer when it comes too early or too late. In places where rain-fed agriculture is the norm, a slight shift in the timing of rain in the agricultural calendar brings sever damage on crops and threatens the sustainability of livelihoods. This makes agriculture often considered to be the most vulnerable sector to climate change and variability. Thus, climate variability and change has always been of fundamental concerns in countries like Ethiopia and people have been trying to cope with and adapt to it. This study, therefore, tried to assess the existing social and economic impacts of climate change and variability on the livelihoods of the smallholder farmers and surveys their adaption strategies together with the prevailing barriers of adaptation in rural Ethiopia. This will provide valuable information on the issue.