Pastoral adaptation strategies to climate change in selected areas of the cattle corridor of Uganda
Abstract
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Pastoralists’ communities have been able to cope in various
ways to climate change stresses. However, little is known of
these coping practices. This study examined the major climatic
stresses in the past three decades amongst agro-pastoralists,
their drivers, and community and institutional responses to the
changes in the cattle corridor of Uganda. The research was
purely qualitative and methods used were focused group
discussions and structured questionnaires. The major climatic
shocks identified were prolonged and increased frequency of
droughts, disease out breaks such as foot and mouth disease,
and bovine contagious disease. These out breaks occurred in
the periods of 1980 to 1983, 1990 to 1992, 1996 to 2000, and
2006 to 2007. Coping strategies documented were migration to
relatively safe areas, quarantine, vaccinations and treatment of
animals. It is recommended that more detailed studies be done
on the epidemiology of cattle diseases in the cattle corridor and
on climate change and external factors that hinder the expression
of adaptive capacity of pastoralist.
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