scholarly journals Socio-economic adaptation strategy of farming communities after natural disasters

2021 ◽  
Vol 681 (1) ◽  
pp. 012074
Author(s):  
H Sultan ◽  
I Abubakar ◽  
S Y C Arfah ◽  
Sulaeman ◽  
E B Demmallino
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Economic Adaptation

scholarly journals Sustainability of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: Experiences from Eastern Ghana

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Kwaku Agyei
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Short Rotation ◽  
Low Cost Strategy

<p class="emsd"><span lang="EN-GB">Climate change risks are wide spread, and they are transforming the socio-environmental infrastructure of economic development. Whether they are included or not in the development of national adaptation strategies, rural populations continue to employ diverse climate adaptation strategies to withstand climate induced vulnerabilities inimical to their livelihoods. Using the case of farming communities in Eastern Ghana and through semi-structured interviews, this article addresses the questions: which climate risks confront farmers, what are farmers’ adaptation choices, and which adaptation strategies are sustainable and why? The paper argues that farmers use range of adaptation strategies to minimize climate risks. Nevertheless, some strategies do not sustain the anticipated positive outcomes. Local choices of adaptation strategies were skewed towards advancing general income, and poorly promoted healthy ecological systems. Farmers’ choices of climate strategies were based on, among others, personal intuition or historical experience, knowledge of strategies, and availability of resources to implement a particular strategy: sustainability measures weakly influenced selections. Short rotation and mixed species cropping, farming at several locations, and drought tolerant crop varieties were sustainable initiatives to farmers. The main qualities of successful initiatives were low cost strategy, economic equity, and flexibility to precipitation and temperature. Climate adaptation strategy can be sustainable if it is less costly to establish, and flexible to places and seasons. </span></p>

scholarly journals Hauglegging i Sør-Fron – hva var de redd for? Gravfunn, løsfunn og flomskred i yngre jernalder

Viking ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ropeid Sæbø
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
Burial Mounds

The density of large burial mounds in Sør-Fron shows that interring bodies in earth and stone was an act of great importance to the populace at some point in prehistory. In this paper I analyse grave finds and stray finds to establish when this need was at its most urgent. My results imply that the majority of the mounds date to the Late Iron Age, and show that the mounds had the agency to structure ritual action in the area at this time. Natural disasters, especially in the form of landslides, constituted a constant threat to the farming communities of the area in the Late Iron Age. Drawing on the work of Tarlow (1995), Skre (1996), Gardela (2016) and Eriksen (2019), I argue that constructing mounds was a way of coping with these threats through a manifestation of land ownership and a strategy of “ritual fertilization”.

Pengaruh Keragaman Strategi Adaptasi terhadap Tingkat Taraf Hidup Migran Sektor Informal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Yusnita Yusnita ◽  
Dina Nurdinawati
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Economic Adaptation ◽  
Selection Of

Migrasi dari desa ke kota biasanya didorong oleh tertinggalnya pertumbuhan desa dibandingkan dengan pertumbuhan kota. Di perkotaan, sektor informal menjadi salah satu alternatif dalam mencari lapangan kerja. Perubahan tempat tinggal dan tempat bekerja dari desa ke kota mengharuskan migran untuk menyesuaikan diri dengan lingkungan barunya untuk memperoleh kehidupan yang lebih baik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh keragaman strategi adaptasi terhadap tingkat taraf hidup migran sektor informal. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif didukung pendekatan kualitatif. Data kuantitatif diolah menggunakan uji regresi dengan pemilihan responden menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh antara keragaman strategi adaptasi sosial dan ekonomi terhadap tingkat taraf hidup migran. Strategi adaptasi sosial yang dominan diterapkan migran ialah  mengikuti organisasi kedaerahan dan melakukan interaksi sesama pendatang, sedangkan strategi adaptasi ekonomi yang dominan diterapkan ialah memilih jenis barang dagangan yang sama dengan migran terdahulu, berinvestasi dan menghemat pengeluaran.Kata kunci: adaptasi ekonomi, adaptasi sosial, taraf hidup==========ABSTRACTThe migration from rural to urban areas is usually driven by lagging rural growth compared to urban growth. In urban areas, the informal sector is one alternative in finding employment. The change of residence and workplace from village to city requires migrants to adjust to their new environment to get a better life. This study aims to analyze the effect of the diversity of adaptation strategies on the standard of living of migrants in the informal sector. The method used in this research is a quantitative approach supported by a qualitative approach. Quantitative data is processed using a regression test with the selection of respondents using a purposive sampling technique. The results showed an influence between the diversity of social and economic adaptation strategies for migrant living standards. The dominant social adaptation strategy applied by migrants is to follow regional organizations and interact with fellow migrants, while the dominant economic adaptation strategy applied is to choose the same type of goods for sale as previous migrants, invest and save expenses.Keywords: economy adaptation, living standard, social adaptation

Exploitation of diversity within farmers' durum wheat varieties enhanced the chance of selecting productive, stable and adaptable new varieties to the local climatic conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejene K. Mengistu ◽  
Afewerki Y. Kiros ◽  
Jemal N. Mohammed ◽  
Yemane Tsehaye ◽  
Carlo Fadda
Keyword(s):  
Durum Wheat ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Wheat Varieties ◽  
Improved Varieties ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Genotype Effect ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
Cropping Seasons

AbstractVariety selection from locally adapted crops is the major climate change adaptation strategy of farming communities. There are several justifications for re-thinking for the sustainable use of crop biodiversity in our breeding programs. Thirty-one durum wheat farmers' varieties (FVs), together with five improved check varieties, were characterized in Tigray during 2014 and 2015 main cropping seasons. The genotype effect explained most of the variations in measured traits, which enabled us to identify superior and stable genotypes for wider adaptation as well varieties with more local adaptation. The genotypes and test locations imposed a highly significant (P < 0.001) effect on both phenological and quantitative traits. A yield advantage of 14.3% was obtained from top performer FV over top performer improved variety, Asassa. Of the tested FVs, 27.8% were superior for grain yield (GY) than improved varieties and 19.4% of these superior FVs were more stable and adaptable than the improved varieties. Besides giving higher GY with spatial stability, they qualify for industrial requirements with high-grain protein (>13%) and gluten (>33%) contents. FVs such as G10, G16, G21, G22 and G30 have wider adaptability and are suitable for production in all tested areas. As outcome of this study, two superior FVs, G10 (208304) and G30 (8208), were nationally released for commercial production for their productivity, stability and grain quality. Utilizing the diverse durum wheat FVs can effectively improve productivity and adaptability. Wheat breeders need to revisit these resources to improve adaptation of wheat production to the changing climatic conditions.

HOSTS, STRANGERS AND THE TENURE POLITICS OF LIVESTOCK CORRIDORS IN MALI

Africa ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Brottem
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Resource Competition ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Land Claims ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Boundary Making ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Herd Mobility

ABSTRACTIn dryland West Africa, policy makers have come to acknowledge livestock mobility as a sound adaptation strategy for variable dryland climate regimes. In Mali, the national government is taking measures to support mobility in the form of grazing zones, conflict management mechanisms and, most notably, livestock passage corridors. These corridors are part of a long and contentious history of territorialization in agrarian West Africa. This paper demonstrates through a comparative case study that livestock corridors can accomplish the agro-ecological objective of improving herd mobility but they also have unforeseen political impacts that depend on socio-spatial relations between farmers and herders. By historicizing corridors and contextualizing them within the host–stranger relationship that is found throughout the region, this paper reveals the different meanings that boundary-making processes take on for autochthonous farmers and mobile herders. In an area where ethnic Fulani herders have settled independently from farming communities, the latter have rejected a proposed corridor. In contrast, farmers in areas where herders are seasonal guests have supported the same measure. These divergent outcomes do not depend simply on different levels of resource competition, but, instead, on the ways in which corridors and their boundaries become inscribed in perceived land claims and power relations between competing groups. These findings have broader implications concerning the interactive changes occurring between autochthonous rights and decentralized democratic institutions in sub-Saharan West Africa.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Keragaman Strategi Adaptasi terhadap Tingkat Taraf Hidup Migran Sektor Informal

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Yusnita Yusnita ◽  
Dina Nurdinawati
Keyword(s):  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Economic Adaptation ◽  
Selection Of

Migrasi dari desa ke kota biasanya didorong oleh tertinggalnya pertumbuhan desa dibandingkan dengan pertumbuhan kota. Di perkotaan, sektor informal menjadi salah satu alternatif dalam mencari lapangan kerja. Perubahan tempat tinggal dan tempat bekerja dari desa ke kota mengharuskan migran untuk menyesuaikan diri dengan lingkungan barunya untuk memperoleh kehidupan yang lebih baik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh keragaman strategi adaptasi terhadap tingkat taraf hidup migran sektor informal. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif didukung pendekatan kualitatif. Data kuantitatif diolah menggunakan uji regresi dengan pemilihan responden menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya pengaruh antara keragaman strategi adaptasi sosial dan ekonomi terhadap tingkat taraf hidup migran. Strategi adaptasi sosial yang dominan diterapkan migran ialah  mengikuti organisasi kedaerahan dan melakukan interaksi sesama pendatang, sedangkan strategi adaptasi ekonomi yang dominan diterapkan ialah memilih jenis barang dagangan yang sama dengan migran terdahulu, berinvestasi dan menghemat pengeluaran.Kata kunci: adaptasi ekonomi, adaptasi sosial, taraf hidup==========ABSTRACTThe migration from rural to urban areas is usually driven by lagging rural growth compared to urban growth. In urban areas, the informal sector is one alternative in finding employment. The change of residence and workplace from village to city requires migrants to adjust to their new environment to get a better life. This study aims to analyze the effect of the diversity of adaptation strategies on the standard of living of migrants in the informal sector. The method used in this research is a quantitative approach supported by a qualitative approach. Quantitative data is processed using a regression test with the selection of respondents using a purposive sampling technique. The results showed an influence between the diversity of social and economic adaptation strategies for migrant living standards. The dominant social adaptation strategy applied by migrants is to follow regional organizations and interact with fellow migrants, while the dominant economic adaptation strategy applied is to choose the same type of goods for sale as previous migrants, invest and save expenses.Keywords: economy adaptation, living standard, social adaptation

When Mother Earth Rises Up

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Sacchi ◽  
Paolo Riva ◽  
Marco Brambilla
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
Mother Earth

Anthropomorphization is the tendency to ascribe humanlike features and mental states, such as free will and consciousness, to nonhuman beings or inanimate agents. Two studies investigated the consequences of the anthropomorphization of nature on people’s willingness to help victims of natural disasters. Study 1 (N = 96) showed that the humanization of nature correlated negatively with willingness to help natural disaster victims. Study 2 (N = 52) tested for causality, showing that the anthropomorphization of nature reduced participants’ intentions to help the victims. Overall, our findings suggest that humanizing nature undermines the tendency to support victims of natural disasters.

PENERAPAN ALGORITMA K-MEANS UNTUK PENGELOMPOKAN DAERAH RAWAN BENCANA DI INDONESIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Amril Mutoi Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Accurate Data ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Central Java ◽  
North Sulawesi ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Disaster Data ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All

Indonesia is a country located in the equator, which has beautiful natural. It has a mountainous constellation, beaches and wider oceans than land, so that Indonesia has extraordinary natural beauty assets compared to other countries. Behind the beauty of natural it turns out that it has many potential natural disasters in almost all provinces in Indonesia, in the form of landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, Mount Meletus and others. The problem is that the government must have accurate data to deal with disasters throughout the province, where disaster data can be in categories or groups of regions into very vulnerable, medium, and low disaster areas. It is often found when a disaster occurs, many found that the distribution of long-term assistance because the stock for disaster-prone areas is not well available. In the study, it will be proposed to group disaster-prone areas throughout the province in Indonesia using the k-means algorithm. The expected results can group all regions that are very prone to disasters. Thus, the results can be Province West java, central java very vulnerable categories, provinces Aceh, North Sumatera, West Sumatera, east Java and North Sulawesi in the medium category, provinces Bengkulu, Lampung, Riau Island, Babel, DIY, Bali, West Kalimantan, North Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, Maluku, North Maluku, Papua, west Papua including of rare categories. With the results obtained in this study, the government can map disaster-prone areas as well as prepare emergency response assistance quickly. In order to reduce the death toll and it is important to improve the services of disaster victims. With accurate data can provide prompt and appropriate assistance for victims of natural disasters.

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