Assessment of spatio-temporal redistribution of major crops and livestock mobility due to climate change and variability in Uganda
Abstract
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Considering how climate will change over the years offer
important insight into how the challenges as result of climate
change (CC) and variability can be responded to. Modeling
and descriptive studies are being conducted in Uganda to
generate information to guide activities geared towards building
resilience of agro-pastoralist communities in adapting to and
mitigating present and future climate change and variability
impacts. Specifically, the study is assessing the performance
of different global climate models (GCMs) in the MAGICC/
Scengen tool with the view to obtain the best combination to be
used for downscaling and projecting climate change and
variability in Uganda, document the past and current responses
in most vulnerable farming communities’ and to identify the
appropriate adjustments to cope with climate related stress.
Modeling, focus group discussions and individual interviewing
were the main data collection methods used. Data collected
were subjected to reduction and development of themes for
analysis. The preliminary results show ECHO-G and UKHADCM3 as the best projectors of climate change and
variability in Uganda. Furthermore analysis is required to project
the likely redistribution of major crops and map the potential
pastoral migratory routes under different climate change
scenarios.
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