Climate and poverty in Africa South of the Sahara

Azzarri, Carlo; Signorelli, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104691

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“…Farmers in Kisumu experienced more extreme rainfallrelated challenges in terms of both droughts and floods, which was expected due to the higher temperatures and impermeable soils in this region. It has been found earlier that farmers living in more humid areas of sub-Saharan Africa have better welfare than those living in drier areas (Azzarri & Signorelli, 2020). Farmers in both Kisumu and Trans Nzoia perceived that rainfall had become more unreliable and that the frequency and scale of extreme weather events had increased.…”

Section: Perceived and Observed Rainfall Variability Challengesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…It is important that farmers have recognized a change in rainfall patterns, since such awareness can make them more motivated to find and use adaptation measures for the changing situation (Deressa et al, 2011;Maddison, 2007). Extreme rainfall events such as floods are associated with lower food consumption among the affected people and an increased poverty level (Azzarri & Signorelli, 2020). These effects are directly related to coping measures evaluated in this study, where farmers changed eating habits or had less meals per day or had to sell off property like livestock, crops or land, or even leave the farm and migrate.…”

Section: Perceived and Observed Rainfall Variability Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability

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et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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Rainfall variability is becoming more profound in East Africa. Smallholders relying on rainfed agriculture are particularly affected and need to adapt their farming systems accordingly. This study examined the measures small-scale farmers use to adapt to, or cope with rainfall variability and their rated perceived effectiveness. It also explored limitations to adoption of measures and sources of learning measures. Questionnairebased interviews were held with 80 smallholder farmers, both female and male, living in Kisumu and Trans Nzoia counties in Kenya who had regular or sporadic access to advisory services (denoted trained and non-trained farmers). Trained farmers used more adaptation measures, especially of the measures perceived to be more effective, than non-trained farmers. Female farmers felt more limited by lack of knowledge than male farmers, while money, land and labour limited the smallholder farmers equally. Few measures were used to overcome limitations, but several limitations were covered within the advisory package used for trained farmers, and therefore large differences were seen not only in numbers of measures used, but also in the choice of measures and perceived effectiveness of use. Thus advisory services and policy interventions can play important roles in future efforts to improve adoption of measures.

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Section: Perceived and Observed Rainfall Variability Challengesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Perceived and Observed Rainfall Variability Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors affecting smallholder adoption of adaptation and coping measures to deal with rainfall variability

Nyberg

Wetterlind²,

Jonsson³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

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“…Regarding income, Azzarri and Signorelli [25] show that unstable rainfall and temperature instability leads to reduced production in sectors such as agriculture, livestock and tourism. Furthermore, Hirazawa et al [26] show that MEAs affect international income inequalities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Do Environmental Policy Stringency Promote Human Development in Developing Countries?

Blaise

2020

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This article analyses the effect of multilaterals environmental agreements (MEAs), the Ministry of Environment and Environmental Democracy on human development in developing countries. The sample comprises 72 countries and the data cover the period from 1995 to 2017. The analysis is carried out in cross-section and the estimation technique is that of double least squares. The results show that MEAs, the ministry of environment and environmental democracy increase the human development index. The results also show that MEAs reduce child mortality, income inequality, and improve secondary school completion rates. Finally, our results indicate that climate change, level of development and geographical location impact on human development in developing countries. We therefore recommend that these countries promote environmental policy stringency while improving their level of governance.

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“…Although developing countries have been slow to develop and implement strategies to mitigate natural disasters such as droughts, floods, storms and extreme temperatures, they are already more affected by weather and climate-related disasters as a result of their vulnerability and lack of adaptive capacity (Padli et al, 2018). This is particularly the case in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (Azzarri and Signorelli, 2020). Evaluating the quality of CIS provided to users in SSA is therefore of critical importance, as is identifying those weather events that pose the greatest threat to lives, well-being and socioeconomic development.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%