Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts in Semi-arid Environments in Tanzania: A Gender Perspective

Abstract Despite their high vulnerability, insular ecosystems have been largely ignored in climate change assessments, and when they are investigated, studies tend to focus on exposure to threats instead of vulnerability. The present study examines climate change vulnerability of islands, focusing on endemic mammals and by 2050 (RCPs 6.0 and 8.5), using trait-based and quantitative-vulnerability frameworks that take into account exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Our results suggest that all islands and archipelagos show a certain level of vulnerability to future climate change, that is typically more important in Pacific Ocean ones. Among the drivers of vulnerability to climate change, exposure was rarely the main one and did not explain the pattern of vulnerability. In addition, endemic mammals with long generation lengths and high dietary specializations are predicted to be the most vulnerable to climate change. Our findings highlight the importance of exploring islands vulnerability to identify the highest climate change impacts and to avoid the extinction of unique biodiversity.

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Assessment of Coastal Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts Using GIS and Remote Sensing: A Case Study of Al-Alamein New City

Journal of Cleaner Production ◽

10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125723 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 125723

Author(s):

Mohamed Marzouk ◽

Khalid Attia ◽

Shimaa Azab

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Remote Sensing ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Coastal Vulnerability ◽

Gis And Remote Sensing ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

New City

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Factors in Smallholder Farmers’ Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts in the Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro, Tanzania

Sustainable Intensification to Advance Food Security and Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-09360-4_9 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 185-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amon Z. Mattee ◽

K. R. Mussa ◽

Dismas L. Mwaseba ◽

C. P. Mahonge ◽

J. V. Nsenga

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Smallholder Farmers ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

Uluguru Mountains

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As Experiências da Coalizão Adapta Sertão na Disseminação de Tecnologias e Estratégias de Adaptação à Mudança Climática para o Agricultor Familiar do Semiárido Brasileiro (The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change...)

Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física ◽

10.26848/rbgf.v4i6.232776 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 1336 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniele Cesano ◽

Emilio Lèbre La Rovere ◽

Martin Obermaier ◽

Thais Corral ◽

Laise Santos da Silva ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Production Systems ◽

Public Policies ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Family Farming ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Access To Water ◽

Semi Arid

Este artigo descreve a experiência da coalizão Adapta Sertão na experimentação e disseminação de sistemas produtivos que possam tornar o agricultor familiar do Semiárido mais resiliente aos impactos da variação climática atual e da mudança do clima no futuro. Durante as experimentações, a coalizão teve que enfrentar várias barreiras ligadas à falta de integração entre políticas públicas existentes e projetos pilotos em comunidades locais. Hoje, a adaptação à mudança do clima não está sendo considerada na implementação de obras hídricas de pequeno e médio porte, que são de grande importância porque, geralmente, conseguem beneficiar as faixas de população mais pobres e mais suscetíveis aos impactos climáticos. As experiências mostram que é preciso desenvolver, com urgência, políticas públicas inovadoras que consigam integrar o acesso à água com a disseminação de tecnologias de adaptação e de sistemas produtivos mais resilientes à seca. Palavras - chave: medidas de adaptação, agricultura familiar, semiárido, tecnologia. The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change Adaptation Technologies and Strategies for Family Farmers in Semi Arid Brazil ABSTRACTThis paper describes the experience of the Adapta Sertão coalition in testing and experimenting production systems that have the potential to make small farmers of semi-arid Brazil more resilient to current and future climate change impacts. During the different testing, the coalition had to overcome several barriers linked to a lack of integration between current public policies. For example, today climate change is not considered in the design and implementation of small and medium hydraulic infrastructures. This limits the benefits to the target groups (small farmers) that are more likely to be affected by climate change. The experiences show that it is urgent and necessary to develop public policies to better integrate access to water, dissemination of climate resilient technologies and implementation of production systems more adequate to the semi arid conditions. Keywords: adaptation measures, family farming, semi-arid, technology.

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Assessing Farm-Households’ Vulnerability to Climate Change Risks in Semi-arid Ghana

10.1007/978-3-030-77259-8_27 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 527-553

Author(s):

Gerald Atampugre ◽

Melissa Nursey-Bray ◽

Md. Masud-All-Kamal ◽

Benjamin Kofi Nyarko

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Farm Households ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Risks ◽

Semi Arid

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The Caribbean's Response to Climate Change Impacts

Natural Resources Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0803-8.ch033 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 713-738

Author(s):

Steve Maximay

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Agricultural Development ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Regional Level ◽

Development Discourse ◽

Caribbean Islands ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

Chronological Sequence ◽

The Caribbean

To fully appreciate climate change impacts and adaptations in the Caribbean, several aspects of the phenomenon and the region's response must be placed in historical and chronological sequence. This chapter starts with a review of the Caribbean islands, focusing on the agricultural sector and its vulnerability to climate change impacts. It then provides a brief review of the Caribbean's foray into organized planning for climate change; the early advocacy of those who believed the issue was a serious threat to the region, and the projects that were developed. It also traces organized institutional level responses, some national efforts, and the degree to which climate change issues have now become part of the routine agricultural development discourse. An overview of the possible climate change impacts and the programmed adaptations at a regional level are presented, and the chapter ends with a look at the importance of communication to raise awareness and ultimately change behaviours.

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Small Island Developing States: A Systematic Literature Review of Academic Research

The Journal of Environment & Development ◽

10.1177/1070496519835895 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 196-218 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Carola Klöck ◽

Patrick D. Nunn

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Academic Research ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Small Island ◽

Small Island Developing States ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Island States ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

The Pacific

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) share a common vulnerability to climate change. Adaptation to climate change and variability is urgently needed yet, while some is already occurring in SIDS, research on the nature and efficacy of adaptation across SIDS is fragmentary. In this article, we systematically review academic literature to identify where adaptation in SIDS is documented; what type of adaptation strategies are taken, and in response to which climate change impacts; and the extent to which this adaptation has been judged as successful. Our analysis indicates that much adaptation research is concentrated on the Pacific, on independent island states, and on core areas within SIDS. Research documents a wide array of adaptation strategies across SIDS, notably structural or physical and behavioral changes. Yet, evaluation of concrete adaptation interventions is lacking; it thus remains unclear to what extent documented adaptation effectively and sustainably reduces SIDS’ vulnerability and increases their resilience.

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Effect of border policy on exposure and vulnerability to climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2007597117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (43) ◽

pp. 26692-26702

Author(s):

Hélène Benveniste ◽

Michael Oppenheimer ◽

Marc Fleurbaey

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

International Migration ◽

Population Distribution ◽

Migration Policy ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

International Climate Policy ◽

Border Policy

Migration may be increasingly used as adaptation strategy to reduce populations’ exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts. Conversely, either through lack of information about risks at destinations or as outcome of balancing those risks, people might move to locations where they are more exposed to climatic risk than at their origin locations. Climate damages, whose quantification informs understanding of societal exposure and vulnerability, are typically computed by integrated assessment models (IAMs). Yet migration is hardly included in commonly used IAMs. In this paper, we investigate how border policy, a key influence on international migration flows, affects exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts. To this aim, we include international migration and remittance dynamics explicitly in a widely used IAM employing a gravity model and compare four scenarios of border policy. We then quantify effects of border policy on population distribution, income, exposure, and vulnerability and of CO2 emissions and temperature increase for the period 2015 to 2100 along five scenarios of future development and climate change. We find that most migrants tend to move to areas where they are less exposed and vulnerable than where they came from. Our results confirm that migration and remittances can positively contribute to climate change adaptation. Crucially, our findings imply that restrictive border policy can increase exposure and vulnerability, by trapping people in areas where they are more exposed and vulnerable than where they would otherwise migrate. These results suggest that the consequences of migration policy should play a greater part in deliberations about international climate policy.

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