Introducing experiences from African pastoralist communities to cope with climate change risks, hazards and extremes: Fostering poverty reduction

Filho, Walter Leal; Taddese, Habitamu; Balehegn, Mulubrhan; Nzengya, Daniel M.; Debela, Nega; Amare, Abayineh; Mworozi, Edison; Osei, Sampson Aboagye; Ayal, Desalegn Yayeh; Nagy, Gustavo J.; Yannick, Nsani; Kimu, Saizi; Balogun, Abdul‐Lateef; Alemu, Esubalew Abate; Li, Chunlan; Sidsaph, Henry; Wolf, Franziska

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101738

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“…Furthermore, in many cases, regardless of the exact location investigated, the fact that human mobility is part of societies is not mentioned in the reviewed analyses. As such, displacement is discussed in conflict-affected Somalia, a country consisting of circa 60% pastoralists, a traditionally mobile part of the population that has long used migration as a coping mechanism in times of water scarcity or prolonged heat (Kassahun et al, 2008;Leal Filho et al, 2020). We find that the case studies are based on the implicit assumption that, generally, most people in a given location would prefer to stay where they live, as long as they have sufficient freedoms, are safe, and have economic opportunities.…”

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Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa

2021

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Climate-related human mobility (climate mobilities) is often portrayed as a key impact of human-induced climate change. Yet, causal, quantitative evidence on this link remains limited and suffers from disciplinary hurdles. One reason for this is that existing case studies do not incorporate insights from climate science methods and pay little attention to contextual factors in climate mobilities. We use a dual-method approach to categorise and classify. By combining a qualitative case study analysis with statistical approaches from topic modelling in an innovative dual-method framework, we show current empirical evidence on weather and climate-related impacts and human mobility in East Africa, an alleged hot-spot of climate change. We find that although climate change is referred to, implicitly and explicitly, as a tipping point for human mobility, studies imply a causal link between human mobility and climate change while under or misrepresenting evidence in climate science. A map of evidence allows studies to be matched with human mobility types and contextual factors influencing such mobilities in a changing climate with a novel and more ambitious form of synthesis, carving out the multi-causal nature of human mobility. Our findings show that climatic influences on human mobility are not independent. Rather, climate factors influencing human mobility are closely connected with contextual factors such as social norms, economic opportunities, and conflict. The findings suggest that there is currently low confidence in a climate change-human mobility nexus for East Africa. As a way forward, we propose emerging methods to systematically research causal links between climate mobilities and anthropogenic climate change globally.

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Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa

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“…This explains the drought adaptation mechanism from the perspective of a household. To manage their exposure, pastoral and agropastoral communities should be reinforced by tackling certain pressing issues that they are currently facing, such as the changing nature of drought threats and the underlying vulnerability of the socioecological setting in which they live [89]. This entails livestock production, as well as land management and biodiversity conservation, and coping with a wide range of natural, social, and economic consequences.…”

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Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

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Background: Assessing the magnitude of smallholder farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to drought is an initial step in identifying the causal factors and proposing interventions that mitigate the impacts of drought. This study aimed to assess smallholders’ livelihood vulnerability to the drought in the upper Awash sub-basin, Ethiopia. Household (HH) and climate data were used for indicators related to sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity that define vulnerability to drought. The vulnerability of farmers’ livelihood to drought was compared among the studies agroecological zone (AEZ) and farm typologies. Results: The result illustrated a diverse magnitude of vulnerability index (VI) ranging from −1.956 to −4.253 for AEZ. The highest magnitude of VI was estimated for livelihood in the lowland AEZ, while the lowest magnitude of VI was estimated in midland AEZ. This could be accounted for by the fact that lowland farmers shown the highest exposure (0.432) and sensitivity (0.420) and the lowest adaptive capacity (0.288). A closer look at farmers’ livelihood typology, in each of the AEZ, showed substantial diversity of farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to drought, implying potential aggregations at AEZ. Accordingly, the vulnerability index for livestock and on-farm-income-based livelihood and marginal and off-farm-income-based livelihood typologies were higher than the intensive-irrigation-farming-based smallholders’ livelihood typology. Conclusions: Based on the result, we concluded that procedures for smallholders’ livelihood resilience-building efforts should better target AEZ to prioritize the focus region and farmers’ livelihood typology to tailor technologies to farms. Although the result emphasizes the importance of irrigation-based livelihood strategy, the overall enhancement of farmers adaptive capacity needs to focus on action areas such as reducing the sensitivity and exposure of the households, improving farmers usage of technologies, diversify farmers’ livelihood options, and, hence, long-term wealth accumulation to strengthen farmers’ adaptive capacity toward drought impacts.

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“…The process of climate change has accelerated because of the continuous emission of CO 2 and other greenhouse gases. The circumstances, such as rising temperature, increased the intensity of rainstorms and drought, and increased frequency of rapid turn from drought to flood, were threatening ecosystems and even social development [ 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 ]. However, various ecosystems have different abilities to resist climate change, and the impact of meteorological factors on different ecosystems is also variable.…”

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Effect of Climate Change on CO2 Flux in Temperate Grassland, Subtropical Artificial Coniferous Forest and Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems

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The interactions between CO2 flux, an important component of ecosystem carbon flux, and climate change vary significantly among different ecosystems. In this research, the inter-annual variation characteristics of ecosystem respiration (RE), gross ecosystem exchange (GEE), and net ecosystem exchange (NEE) were explored in the temperate grassland (TG) of Xilinhot (2004–2010), the subtropical artificial coniferous forest (SACF) of Qianyanzhou (2003–2010), and the tropical rain forest (TRF) of Xishuangbanna (2003–2010). The main factors of climate change affecting ecosystem CO2 flux were identified by redundancy analysis, and exponential models and temperature indicators were constructed to consider the relationship between climate change and CO2 flux. Every year from 2003 to 2010, RE and GEE first increased and then decreased, and NEE showed no significant change pattern. TG was a carbon source, whereas SACF and TRF were carbon sinks. The influence of air temperature on RE and GEE was greater than that of soil temperature, but the influence of soil moisture on RE and GEE was greater than that of air moisture. Compared with moisture and photosynthetically active radiation, temperature had the greatest impact on CO2 flux and the exponential model had the best fitting effect. In TG and SACF, the average temperature was the most influential factor, and in TRF, the accumulated temperature was the most influential factor. These results provide theoretical support for mitigating and managing climate change and provide references for achieving carbon neutrality.

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Introducing experiences from African pastoralist communities to cope with climate change risks, hazards and extremes: Fostering poverty reduction

Cited by 35 publications

References 33 publications

Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa

Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa

Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

Effect of Climate Change on CO2 Flux in Temperate Grassland, Subtropical Artificial Coniferous Forest and Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems

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