Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 29)
Voices of Kenyan Maasai about climate change
As part of the project “Conversations with the Earth“, which brings indigenous voices from around the world to convey their experiences of climate change, Maasai youth near Oltepesi in Kajiado District, Kenya, made their own film. They documented the impacts of the 2009 drought in their area, killing livestock and people, threatening their livelihoods and […]
Adapting to climate change in the water sector in Ethiopia
A study by RIPPLE (Resource-Inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region) looked into the effectiveness of planned climate-change adaptation interventions in highland, midland and lowland sites in Oromia and Somali Regions of Ethiopia, including pastoral and agropastoral areas. Water resources are likely to be particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate […]
Economic case for community-based adaptation in dryland Kenya
A study made by the new economics foundation (nef), on behalf of CARE, shows that community-based adaptation (CBA) makes strong economic sense. The various scenarios comparing systematic and planned adaptation to a situation with no support to adaptation are based on learning from the real situation of two communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands […]
Climate change and pastoralists
The drylands have always known large climatic fluctuations, and pastoralists have developed resilient livelihood systems to cope with them. However, global climate change is raising new challenges for pastoral systems in Africa. Action at local, national and international levels is needed to prevent destitution and to help pastoral groups respond to the changing environment. This […]
Making African pastoralism more resilient to climate change
WISP (World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism) made a scoping study Building climate-change resilience for livestock in sub-Saharan Africa to identify entry points for building the resilience of livestock systems to climate change and variability. It included two subregional reviews (in eastern & southern Africa, and in West & Central Africa), six country visits (in Kenya, […]