Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa write by Yanda, Pius Zebhe. This book was released on 2018-08-03. Pastoralism and Climate Change in East Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa
Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa write by Mary Kirkbride. This book was released on 2008. Survival of the Fittest: Pastoralism and climate change in East Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Sub-Saharan Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Sub-Saharan Africa write by Melese Getu. This book was released on 2013. Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in Sub-Saharan Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The term climate change is used to denote any significant but extended change in the measures of climate. The changes could be due to natural variability or as a result of human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels to produce energy, deforestation, industrial processes, and some agricultural practices. Such activities release large amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that hang like a blanket around the earth, thus trapping energy in the atmosphere and causing it to warm up. This results increasingly in climate variability, which is characterised by extreme seasonal, annual, temporal and non-spatial variability in temperature, vagaries of precipitation (rainfall patterns and amounts) and/or wind patterns occurring over a prolonged period of time. The last decade (2001 - 2010) has been the warmest on record; with the average temperatures reaching 0.46∞C, above the 1961 - 1990 mean, and 0.21∞C warmer than the 1991 - 2000 period. It has been proved that the African continent is warming up faster, all year-round, than the global avera≥ a trend that is likely to continue. By the year 2100, it is predicted that temperature changes will fall into ranges of about 1.4∞C to nearly 5.8∞C increase in mean surface temperature compared to 1990, and the mean sea level will rise between 10cm to 90 cm (AMCEN 2011). The interior of semiarid margins of the Sahara and central southern Africa will be the most affected by such warming (AMCEN 2011). To tackle the phenomenon of climate change effectively, human societies have put in place a combination of mitigation and adaptation mechanisms and strategies. Whereas mitigation aims at avoiding or lessening the impacts of the unmanageable, the goal of adaptation is to manage the unavoidable. That men and women are affected differently by climate change suggests that they also differ in terms of the adaptation mechanisms they employ. Despite the existence of gender-based differences in the effects of climate change and in adaptation and coping strategies, studies on the gender differential impacts of climate change and variability on women in general and pastoralist women in particular in sub-Saharan Africa are limited. This volume offers insights and knowledge that pastoralist women developed on climate change adaptation through their experiences in their households and communities and thereby tries to narrow this gap.
Pastoralism in Africa’s drylands
Pastoralism in Africa’s drylands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoralism in Africa’s drylands write by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This book was released on 2018-10-29. Pastoralism in Africa’s drylands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500
Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500 write by Gufu Oba. This book was released on . Pastoralist Resilience to Environmental Collapse in East Africa since 1500 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
