Pastoralism & Climate Change (page 16)
Pastoralism and its future
As part of a project exploring the impact of climate change on food security and livelihoods of small-scale family farmers in Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Zimbabwe, IRIN published a “factfile” entitled “Pastoralism and its future” (October 2017). In the drylands, the extreme variations in weather mean that pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy […]
Climate information for the poor in Kenya’s drylands
Climate variability and change affect millions of poor people in Kenya, especially in the drylands. Investments are being made in developing Climate Information Services (CIS) tailored to the needs of pastoralists and agropastoralists, to help them adapt to the impact of climate change. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS) Policy Briefing 145 “Improving the impact […]
Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya
Maasai responses to climate change in Kenya Climate change has especially strong impacts in the Eastern African drylands where institutions and governance systems are weak. In Kenya, the herds of the formerly nomadic Maasai pastoralists have been suffering from persistent drought. The paper “Climate change responses among the Maasai community in Kenya” (2017, 13pp) […]
Enhancing climate-change adaptation in Karamoja, Uganda
Climate change will have significant impacts on economic activity in Uganda but can also provide new possibilities for people and businesses, e.g. to create new products and services, develop new markets and access new funding streams and finance mechanisms. The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Working Paper 513 “Enhancing climate change development programmes in Uganda: Karamoja […]
Adaptation to climate change in Borana, Ethiopia
The article “Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia”, published in 2016 in Regional Environmental Change 16 (8): 2317–2330, reports on findings from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Livestock production is very risky due to climate variability in semi-arid Ethiopia. Using data collected from 400 […]