scholarly journals Is migration an effective adaptation to climate-related agricultural distress in sub-Saharan Africa?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira Vinke ◽  
Sophia Rottmann ◽  
Christoph Gornott ◽  
Pascal Zabre ◽  
Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
First Time ◽  
Western Burkina Faso

AbstractMigration is often considered a form of climate change adaptation by which individuals, households, and communities seek to reduce the risks associated with climate change. In this study, we examine first-time seasonal migration out of a village in North-Western Burkina Faso to neighbouring countries, triggered by more irregular rainfall patterns. Through a set of 52 qualitative interviews, we analyse the perceptions of migrants themselves as well as the sending community regarding migration consequences. Men migrated in the off-season, whereas women stayed behind. Most migrant men and wives of migrants perceive migration to have negative consequences for their socio-economic situation and their health. Despite this, a lack of options and deteriorating environmental conditions might force the men to move again. We interpreted the range of narratives provided by women and men against the background of the scientific literature on migration as climate change adaptation. While migration could be beneficial, this study challenges the notion of migration as an effective adaptation strategy for people in climate-vulnerable settings, who lack other options.

scholarly journals Exploring the concept of place in the literature on smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Tetteh Quarshie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Place Meaning ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Climate Shocks

This critical review paper expands on the meaning of place. It opens a new narrative on how the geographic concept of place is conceptualized in smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation literature in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review suggested that place is not only the 'where' of a location but a location geographically connected and interdependent to illustrate how smallholder farmers' experiences in adapting to climate shocks interact with global efforts such as improving food security, eliminating poverty and building sustainable rural livelihood. Through the various climate change adaptation strategies exhibited by different farmer groups, the paper demonstrated that people in places have the agency to make choices that control their destinies irrespective of whatever global force overwhelms them. The paper argues sense of place expressed through ecological place meaning shapes people's intuition, beliefs, actions and experiences as illustrated by smallholders' perception of the determinant and barriers to effective adaptation strategies. The ecological place meaning also influences the 'glocalization' of climate impact on agroecological-based livelihoods at different locations and how maladaptive outcomes are perceived. Place gives people identity by (re)shaping actions and experiences and vice versa. There is an undeviating relationship between power, place and people's experience. Further exploration of the relationship between lifeworld experiences, people, and power is central in understanding the meaning of place to smallholder farmers and climate change interaction

scholarly journals Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 2331-2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrien Descheemaeker ◽  
Simon J. Oosting ◽  
Sabine Homann-Kee Tui ◽  
Patricia Masikati ◽  
Gatien N. Falconnier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Livestock Systems ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

scholarly journals The double challenge of adapting to climate change while accelerating development in sub-Saharan Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 661-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
RASHID HASSAN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Future Climate ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Current Knowledge Base

ABSTRACTAccelerating economic growth and social development is necessary to reduce the vulnerability and enhance the adaptive capacity of sub-Saharan Africa to cope with the consequences of predicted unfavorable future climate. This requires major investments and policy reforms to induce a needed radical transformation of the way development is currently pursued to a more climate-sensitive path of low carbon growth. Key gaps in the current knowledge base that call for major investments and urgent attention include the ability to forecast more robust local future climate and to account for the uncertainties associated with climate risks for ecosystems' functions and probable nonconvexities in future impacts to project more plausible scenarios for future development in sub-Saharan Africa and provide better information on the costs and benefits of potential actions to avert the negative consequences of climate change.

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