Improving the Participation of Agro-Pastoralists in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Formulation: A Case Study from Keiyo District, Kenya

Songok, Charles Kipkorir; Kipkorir, Emmanuel C.; Mugalavai, Edward M.; Kwonyike, Andrew Chepkok; Ng’weno, Caroline C.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22315-0_4

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“…Improving productivity of small grains is the key to food and nutrition security in the context of climate change and variability (Matthew, 2015;Ndlovu, Mpofu, & Moyo, 2019;Nhemachena et al, 2014). As already indicated climate change and variability has led to increased frequency of drought and extended dry spells in both marginal and high potential areas (Dube & Phiri, 2013;Kebede & Nicholls, 2012;Songok, Kipkorir, Mugalavai, Kwonyike, & Ngweno, 2011). The decline in the production of small grains may be attributed to the low incentives being given to farmers who produce it.…”

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Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Phiri

Dube

Moyo

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Cogent Social Sciences

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Section: Grain Production Trends In Zimbabwementioning

confidence: 99%

Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Phiri

Dube

Moyo

et al. 2019

Cogent Social Sciences

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“…Climate change is commonly recognized to have major implications for food security and livelihoods (Thompson and Scoones 2009). In sub-Saharan Africa, extreme droughts already impede people's ability to grow food and rear livestock, and pastoralists and agro-pastoralists will need to adapt to changes in water regimes in order to maintain their food security and well-being (Kebede et al 2011;Songok et al 2011b).…”

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Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

2015

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Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Multiple biophysical, political, and socioeconomic stresses interact to increase the region's susceptibility and constrain its adaptive capacity. Climate change is commonly recognized as a major issue likely to have negative consequences on food security and livelihoods in the region. This paper reviews three bodies of scholarship that have evolved somewhat separately, yet are inherently interconnected: climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation, food security, and sustainable livelihoods. The paper develops a conceptualization of the relationships among the three themes and shows how food security's vulnerabilities are related to multiple stresses and adaptive capacities, reflecting access to assets. Food security represents one of several livelihood outcomes. The framework shows how several research paradigms relate to the issue of food security and climate change and provides a guide for empirical investigations. Recognizing these interconnections can help in the development of more effective policies and programs. The framework is applied here to synthesize findings from an array of studies in subSaharan Africa dealing with vulnerability to climate change, food security, and livelihoods.

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“…While such gatekeepers provide a convenient interface between external development actors and local populations, their perspectives are shaped by the values and interests of the urban, educated demographic to which they belong. The lifestyles of most urban representatives separate them from the daily realities experienced by pastoralists (Songok et al 2011 ). Community concerns that resonate with their own economic positions—access to employment, contracts and business opportunities—are more likely to be amplified, while the concerns of herders are attenuated.…”

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Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya

Rodgers

2021

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Large-scale development interventions have long failed to accommodate the needs and preferences of pastoralists or the systems of resource governance and land tenure upon which they rely. However, advocates of rights-based approaches to development emphasise the importance of community participation in planning and agenda-setting, and in Kenya, public participation is a formal constitutional requirement for government decision-making processes. In 2015, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees concluded negotiations with local stakeholders about the use of 15 km2 of communal rangelands to build a new refugee settlement in Turkana County, Kenya. Negotiations entailed a community dialogue process involving local people living in the vicinity of the proposed settlement. This paper retrospectively examines the inclusivity of the dialogue process, with particular attention to the involvement of pastoralists and the representation of their interests. Interviews and focus groups conducted with a range of key informants and community stakeholders highlighted two key problems. First, negotiations relied upon a simplistic approach to communal land tenure that overlooked the complexity of overlapping and often contested access rights. Second, there was an over-reliance on urban professionals and politicians as intermediaries between rural communities and development actors. Even where elite intermediaries act in good faith, they may introduce an ‘oppidan bias’ into development policies, thereby marginalising the viewpoints of non-urban, non-sedentary demographics, such as pastoralists. I conclude with recommendations for the UNHCR to develop a more explicit strategy for direct engagement with host community stakeholders in Turkana and with increased attention to the interests of livestock producers and the nuances of pastoralist land use.

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Improving the Participation of Agro-Pastoralists in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Formulation: A Case Study from Keiyo District, Kenya

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Small grains “resistance”? Making sense of Zimbabwean smallholder farmers’ cropping choices and patterns within a climate change context

Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

Community engagement in pastoralist areas: Lessons from the public dialogue process for a new refugee settlement in Turkana, Kenya

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