Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 13)
Climate-change adaptation building on local innovation
Partners in Ethiopia, Nepal and Nigeria within the international multistakeholder Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation) network explored the relevance of the PID (Participatory Innovation Development) approach to climate-change adaptation (CCA) at local level. PID involves multistakeholder experimentation that builds on local ideas and initiatives. The study on “Participatory climate-change adaptation building on local innovation” (2011, 9pp, […]
Improving the livestock sector in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
A report for the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) entitled “Livestock sector in the Ngorongoro District: analysis, shortcomings and options for improvement” (2018, 58pp) by Pablo Manzano and Lucas Yamat, looks at how to increase revenues from livestock in Ngorongoro in northwest Tanzania. In response to the 2017 drought, local communities used different strategies, […]
Gendered vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid areas
Recent research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered, but policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities’ adaptive capacity largely fail to recognise this. The paper “Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia” by Nitya Rao et al, published in Climate and Development (2017) interrogates […]
Gender differences among Afar pastoralists in vulnerability to climate change
Researchers at Mekelle University, Ethiopia, investigated factors that determine the level of vulnerability to climate change and adaptive capacity among Afar men and women pastoralists. The results are reported in the article “Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia” (Pastoralism: Research, Policy and […]
Afar pastoralist households’ resilience to climate change in Ethiopia
Climate change and extremes are major challenges to pastoral production systems. Alternative ways of making a living could determine a pastoralist household’s resilience. The study “Understanding resilience of pastoralists to climate change and variability in the southern Afar Region, Ethiopia” by Muluken Mekuyie et al, published in 2018 in Climate Risk Management 20: 64-77, looked […]