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Integrating indigenous knowledge in climate risk management in support of community based adaptation

Researchers from ICPAC and Nganyi Community, Kenya will endeavor to integrate indigenous knowledge into scientific climate forecasts at the local level, where it can be used to enhance the resilience of communities vulnerable to climate change.
Country: Kenya
Organization: IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC)

Community led actions against food insecurity in Maradi district – Niger

Climate variability, Food insecurity, Migration, Social capital (solidarity)
Country: Niger
Organization: ENDA TM, Dakar - Senegal

Cattle to Camels: Insights into adaptation, conflict and co-operation from Borana communities adapting to changing weather patterns in the Horn of Africa

Climate change is giving rise to new scenarios requiring not only new coping mechanisms, but alternative livelihoods and most dramatically, refined social systems. This project is one of three related studies proposed to look at: Borana communities that have shifted from centuries old socio-cultural cattle pastoralism to new livelihoods dependent on the camel. The other two studies will look at: agro-pastoralist communities in Borana areas that are shifting to pastoralism; and how Borana peoples are negotiating peace around the principal of temporary, asymmetric and sustainable sharing of contested resources, and respect for the fundamental right of stricken people and their animals to survive. Borana cattle are an intrinsic part of the social organization of these pastoral communities who hold indigenous knowledge around a unique migration between the 500 year old deep tula well complexes on the Ethiopian plateau and seasonal grazing lands on the north Kenyan plains. Cattle value comprises: functions (e.g. traction power), outputs (e.g. manure, milk), services (e.g. dowry, status of wealth) associated with keeping cattle, and trade in markets. The Borana cattle are the predominant traditional breed on the semiarid Southern Borana plateau of Ethiopia and in the northern Kenyan lowlands. The Borana plateau is nowadays constantly in crisis due to pressure on the common rangelands. Significant changes in climate threaten the conservation of ecosystems and natural habitats necessary (as defined by the Convention On Biological Diversity) for the maintenance and recovery of viable populations of Borana cattle in their natural surroundings. Bush encroachment is diminishing availability of good pasture leading to a decline in cattle carrying capacity per unit grazing area. Whilst there are advantages in owning a variety of species so that, whatever climatic events occur, there will be survivors, maintaining such herds is a luxury that only the wealthier can afford. However, each represent a massive past investment in animal genetic resources which can provide insurance against unknown global future providing a chance for future generations to respond adequately to increasing food demand, environmental changes, diseases, and other associated challenges. This study features communities that have chosen to switch from their grazing cattle to camels, which are browsers and resilient in a drought (though camels will die in numbers after a critical point). Understanding this choice and the lessons its holds for those struggling with governance under this global ecological crisis as well as others facing climate change induced livelihood choices is critical.
Country: Ethiopia, Kenya
Organization: NR International and Community Initiative Facilitation and Assistance (CIFA)

Linking African researchers with adaptation policy spaces

This project aims to increase the ability of CCAA programme partners in East Africa to understand climate change adaptation policy processes at local and national scales. The project will conduct policy focused case studies, create accessible tools, methods and conceptual approaches, and establish policy engagement strategies and mentoring relationships between PAR researchers and academic partners. In doing so, the project will draw extensively upon the existing understanding and experience of PAR researchers in policy engagement in both formal and informal policy spaces.
Country: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania
Organization: IDS

Adaptation mechanisms to climate change in two contrasting rural communities in Morocco

The poorest communities in Morocco live in arid areas. Increased climate variability is expected to exacerbate poverty and undermine socioeconomic gains made in recent decades in these communities. This project aims to enhance the adaptive capacity of two rural communities to CC. Building on assessments of CC impacts on ag. systems and NR, research team will analyze risk behaviour under different climatic scenarios and strengthen local capacity to identify appropriate options in response.
Country: Morocco
Organization: CRRA settat, INRA, Morocco

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