Climate Change, Perceptions, and Adaptation Responses Among Farmers and Pastoralists in the Cameroon Highlands

Abstract

Local communities' perceptions of climatic changes can be used to complement meteorological data-scarce areas and places where climate changes are spatially highly variable, such as mountain environments. Local perceptions can also help identify adaptation strategies which are acceptable within, and work for, local cultures. Focusing on two mountains in the Bamenda Highlands (Mts. Oku and