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Climate change impacts and adaptations: the case of Konso community, Southern Ethiopia

Submitted by admin on Mon, 08/08/2011 - 00:35.

Konso of southern Ethiopia
In Ethiopia’s arid and semi-arid areas, drought is part of a normal cycle and pastoral communities like Konso people in the southern region of Ethiopia, have developed strategies to cope. Their strategies cover a wide range of indigenous soil and water conservation practices including physical structures, agronomic measures and agro-forestry. Strong grassroots institutions are also part of the community’s resilience strategies, enabling the community to experiment with further new innovations. Marginalisation of these traditional or customary institutions then increases the vulnerability of the community. Yohannes GebreMedhine, an associate professor at the Addis Ababa University, seeks to understand how the community has adapted to climate variability and change, focusing on local innovation within pastoralist livelihoods and their traditional grassroots institutions.

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Coping strategies against climate change among transhumance pastoral communities in Nepal Himalaya

Submitted by admin on Fri, 15/04/2011 - 15:51.

Proponent: Lila Nath Sharma, Independent Researcher
Project implementation period: 8 months
Project implementation dates: March – October 2010
Project location: Gorkha district, central Nepal

Description:
Concentrated in two remote villages in central Nepal, the project aims to conduct research on the topic of how migratory pastoral Gurung communities in Nepal perceive changes in climatic conditions, how the variation in climate has influenced their activities connected with herds management, how grazing resources have changed during the past 20 years and what adaptive measures have been taken by the herdsmen in response to the changes they have noticed.