An approach for assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in resource dependent communities in the Nikachu watershed, Bhutan

Choden, Kunzang; Keenan, Rodney J.; Nitschke, Craig R.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106293

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“…Smallholder farmers' livelihood vulnerability to climate change (particularly drought) stems both from their geographic location in the tropical regions and the difference in socioeconomic and policy trends that limit their adaptive capacity to the changing climate [4]. Farmers who depend solely on the naturally available rainfall for crop and livestock production are among the most vulnerable to the impacts of stress [41,42] and can be characterized by capital, livelihood diversification, wealth, and access to infrastructure.…”

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Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

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Background: Assessing the magnitude of smallholder farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to drought is an initial step in identifying the causal factors and proposing interventions that mitigate the impacts of drought. This study aimed to assess smallholders’ livelihood vulnerability to the drought in the upper Awash sub-basin, Ethiopia. Household (HH) and climate data were used for indicators related to sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity that define vulnerability to drought. The vulnerability of farmers’ livelihood to drought was compared among the studies agroecological zone (AEZ) and farm typologies. Results: The result illustrated a diverse magnitude of vulnerability index (VI) ranging from −1.956 to −4.253 for AEZ. The highest magnitude of VI was estimated for livelihood in the lowland AEZ, while the lowest magnitude of VI was estimated in midland AEZ. This could be accounted for by the fact that lowland farmers shown the highest exposure (0.432) and sensitivity (0.420) and the lowest adaptive capacity (0.288). A closer look at farmers’ livelihood typology, in each of the AEZ, showed substantial diversity of farmers’ livelihood vulnerability to drought, implying potential aggregations at AEZ. Accordingly, the vulnerability index for livestock and on-farm-income-based livelihood and marginal and off-farm-income-based livelihood typologies were higher than the intensive-irrigation-farming-based smallholders’ livelihood typology. Conclusions: Based on the result, we concluded that procedures for smallholders’ livelihood resilience-building efforts should better target AEZ to prioritize the focus region and farmers’ livelihood typology to tailor technologies to farms. Although the result emphasizes the importance of irrigation-based livelihood strategy, the overall enhancement of farmers adaptive capacity needs to focus on action areas such as reducing the sensitivity and exposure of the households, improving farmers usage of technologies, diversify farmers’ livelihood options, and, hence, long-term wealth accumulation to strengthen farmers’ adaptive capacity toward drought impacts.

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Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

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“…Favorece a velocidade de troca de informações e as interações entre indivíduos (Choden;Keenan;Nitschke, 2020;De Stefano et al, 2015;Leonard;Croson;Oliveira, 2010;Thapa et al, 2016).…”

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“…Quanto maior o tempo reservado a atividades coletivas, maiores as chances de alcançar maiores benefícios coletivos (Choden;Keenan;Nitschke, 2020;Kwon;Heflin;Ruef, 2013). Acesso a bens públicos O provimento dos bens públicos é uma das medidas para aumentar oportunidades econômicas para residentes das comunidades de baixa renda (Kwon;Heflin;Ruef, 2013;Leonard;Croson;Oliveira, 2010).…”

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Capacidade Adaptativa Dos Estabelecimentos Agropecuários Nos Municípios Do Semiárido Brasileiro: Uma Análise a Partir Da Disponibilidade De Capitais

Silva¹

2022

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“…Other barriers associated with tenure and governance are active areas of research [27,121,123,276] and often need broader attention and change in policy and law than can be addressed at the local or even landscape level. A lack of technical capacity [277][278][279] can be a significant barrier to FLR at all organizational levels (i.e. from policymakers and government agencies to local communities and households).…”

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Forest landscape restoration: state of play

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Mansourian

2020

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Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and restoring biodiversity restoration. The Bonn Challenge and New York Declaration on Forests, motivated by widespread deforestation and forest degradation, call for restoring 350 million ha by 2030 by relying on forest landscape restoration (FLR) processes. Because the 173 million ha commitments made by 63 nations, regions and companies are not legally binding, expectations of what FLR means lacks consensus. The frequent disconnect between top-level aspirations and on-the-ground implementation results in limited data on FLR activities. Additionally, some countries have made landscape-scale restoration outside of the Bonn Challenge. We compared and contrasted the theory and practice of FLR and compiled information from databases of projects and initiatives and case studies. We present the main FLR initiatives happening across regional groups; in many regions, the potential need/opportunity for forest restoration exceeds the FLR activities underway. Multiple objectives can be met by manipulating vegetation (increasing structural complexity, changing species composition and restoring natural disturbances). Livelihood interventions are context-specific but include collecting or raising non-timber forest products, employment and community forests; other interventions address tenure and governance.

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An approach for assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in resource dependent communities in the Nikachu watershed, Bhutan

Cited by 43 publications

References 74 publications

Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

Analysis of Smallholders’ Livelihood Vulnerability to Drought across Agroecology and Farm Typology in the Upper Awash Sub-Basin, Ethiopia

Capacidade Adaptativa Dos Estabelecimentos Agropecuários Nos Municípios Do Semiárido Brasileiro: Uma Análise a Partir Da Disponibilidade De Capitais

Forest landscape restoration: state of play

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