Identification of and Response to Drought by Local Communities in Fulladu West District, the Gambia

Jallow, Saidou Sireh

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.1995.tb00065.x

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“…At this stage, drought victims often are compelled to buy food by selling their lands, household goods, and livestock at distressed prices [97]. People start to consume wild plants, tubers, and leaves not normally eaten [98]. This provides an 'early warning' of famine.…”

Section: Coping With Droughtsmentioning

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Droughts in Asian Least Developed Countries: Vulnerability and sustainability

Miyan

2015

Weather and Climate Extremes

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Cite this article as: M Alimullah Miyan, Droughts in Asian least developed Countries: Vulnerability and sustainability, Weather and Climate Extremes, http: //dx. AbstractDroughts occur both in developed and developing countries with significant impacts and are exacerbating in frequency, severity and duration. Over exploitation of water resources, weather variability and climate change are mostly responsible for such exacerbation. The impacts of droughts encompass the global ecosystem as a whole but vary from region to region. Least developed countries (LDCs) becoming the worst sufferer of the impacts due to physical, social and economic as well as knowledge and skills differences. The increasing biophysical vulnerability contexts and intensity in the Asian LDCs causing adverse effects on food security, human health, biodiversity, water resources, hydroelectric power generation, streams, perennial springs and livelihood. Drought is also responsible for increasing pollution, pests and diseases and forced migration and famine. Information indicates monsoon has become erratic contributing to up-scaling of droughts. South and Southeast Asian LDCs like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia and Lao PDR under the monsoon climatic zone have also been suffering from increasing droughts arising out of delayed and changing distribution patterns of precipitation. Prolong dry spells increase the frequencies of wildfire in grasslands, forests and range-lands. The rain-fed crops of the plains are facing challenges from soil-moisture stress with projected droughts. Droughts causing migration of fishes, and marine anadromus species are having adverse impacts on spawning habitats. Reduction in annual surface runoff is decreasing the ground and surface water with negative effect on agriculture and water supply for industrial and domestic sectors. As droughts are exacerbating the consequences are accelerating. However, traditionally people are adapting with the changing situations applying indigenous knowledge and practices for sustainable living. This paper reflects on prevalence and impacts of droughts, existing coping mechanisms, initiatives to combat impacts and further doubles in the context of Asian LDCs.

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Section: Coping With Droughtsmentioning

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Droughts in Asian Least Developed Countries: Vulnerability and sustainability

Miyan

2015

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“…Thirdly, crop production may be improved by increasing cultivated area and/or increasing crop yields (Njie et al, 2006) but, increasing cropped area is checked by population growth and consequent diminishing of per capita availability of land, a situation which puts the smallholder farmers in a dilemma of increasing crop yields in a shrinking acreage of cropped area per capita. Through a screening and integration process of previously proposed adaptation options by Jallow (1995) among others, Njie et al (2006: 7) identify crop breeding/selection, crop fertilization, and irrigation, as the most comprehensive, flexible agricultural intensification strategies to improve crop yields. The main argument in favor of crop breeding/selection is that of probable decline in rainfall and increased variability.…”

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Geographical and longitudinal approach to rural livelihood security and crisis responses in Central Kenya: The case of crop variety and livestock breed selection

Kauti¹

2012

J. Geogr. Reg. Plann.

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The study took a geographical and longitudinal approach as opposed to cross-sectional approach in detecting dynamic changes in livelihood strategies of smallholder farmers at two sites in Kabendera and Kiambogo, Central Kenya. The aim was to enhance the understanding of the ways in which households cope and adapt under increasingly evident and significant economic changes and agroclimatic events using the case of crop variety and livestock breed selection. It revealed that households engaged in various economic activities classified into five sectors namely: Agriculture, non-farm activities, livestock, forest product extraction, and off-farm activities. A partitioning of the households into four groups with reference to the sectoral composition of their annual net incomes revealed that all the four livelihood strategy clusters comparatively employed one dominant sector/activity with percentage contribution to annual net total income being above average and other sectors/activities playing a secondary role except for one cluster which is truly diversified. These were referred to as forest product extractors, non-farm activity entrepreneurs, diversified livestock keepers and agriculturists. The analysis of household's coping and adaptation experiences using crop variety and livestock breed selection brought to light a multiplicity of criteria upon which farmers based their decisions. These were grouped into six explanatory factors: Geographic-environmental, economiccommercial, administrative, agronomic, socio-cultural and historical. On the basis of these findings, the study argued for place-based analysis at both household-level and local-levels in enhancing understanding of local-level decisions in adoption of different livelihood strategies in the face of changing economic conditions and agro-climatic events. Even though the study is limited to the local scope, it can provide a basis for designing policies aimed at rural livelihood security improvement to inform and facilitate targeting of outside interventions such as food security programs which can be built on existing livelihood strategies.

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The Baobab as a Fertility Tree

Rashford

2023

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Identification of and Response to Drought by Local Communities in Fulladu West District, the Gambia

Cited by 5 publications

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Droughts in Asian Least Developed Countries: Vulnerability and sustainability

Droughts in Asian Least Developed Countries: Vulnerability and sustainability

Geographical and longitudinal approach to rural livelihood security and crisis responses in Central Kenya: The case of crop variety and livestock breed selection

The Baobab as a Fertility Tree

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