Climate change perceptions and response strategies of forest fringe communities in Indian Eastern Himalaya

The Critical Nexus and Implications of Smallholder Tobacco Production as a Livelihood Strategy to Forest Landscapes in Zimbabwe

“…Viable options to tobacco production do exist for households to diversify but there is lack of support for poor and vulnerable households to adopt them. Increasing levels of poverty limit the ability of households to adopt new technologies and adaptation strategies when confronted climate change induced survival challenges [2]. The road to diversify into these viable options in Zimbabwe is a long drawn process of (re)orientation of suitable institutional arrangements to negotiate for equitable and environmental friendly ways for access to and utilization of indigenous forest resources.…”

“…In Vietnam smallholder farmers have embarked on commercial tree growing, by capitalizing on the increasing demand for wood, to improve their livelihoods though well off households benefit more than their poorer counterparts [35]. The long-term survival of community managed forest resources is determined by closing the gap between rich and poor members of the community especially by empowering the less privileged to improve their livelihood [2,37]. Contemporary trends on the climate change discourse stress the need for governments to shift their economies from use of fossil fuels, which comes with a heavy burden of transformation to a new state, which challenges current consumption trends that involve emission of greenhouse gases [79] and this would go a long way in the Zimbabwean situation in the face of the anti-tobacco lobby.…”

“…This article reinforces the argument that tobacco production as a source of livelihood relates to deforestation and as such could be interpreted as an aspect that influences landscape changes and also pushes climate change or contributing to it. This is seen in the context of agriculture as a crucial sector in developing countries where particularly smallholder agriculture underpins the livelihoods of poor people while bearing the brunt of climate variability and change [1,2]. In Zimbabwe, agriculture is a bedrock of the economy and therefore a critical sector in terms of its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment and livelihood support for the majority rural population.…”

Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models

“…Many of the dramatic shifts predicted by climate science in the coming decades are already intensifying at an alarming rate across rural India: rising temperatures, changes in precipitation cycles, loss of biodiversity, extreme weather events, and declining agricultural productivity (see for example studies by Agrawal & Perrin, 2008; Beermann, Damodaran, Jörgensen, & Schreurs, 2016; Dey et al, 2018). A study by the Centre for Environment, Social and Policy Research (CESPR) and Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change noted the widespread loss of livelihood across many of its regions due to climate change, with particular regions suffering different challenges: habitats of Indian Himalayan region and Nilgiri Tahr are quickly becoming unsuitable.…”

Perception of indigenous people of climate change and its impact on the Everest National Nature Preserve

“…Local residents' cognition, particularly in alpine areas, has a unique grounding in the climate, ecological system, agriculture environmental change and other natural factors, and as such can offset some of the shortcomings of scientific research, which has neglected these topics to some extent (Devkota, 2014;Wang and Cao, 2015;Ingty, 2017;Negi et al, 2017;Dey et al, 2018). As the world's highest plateau, climate change and its impacts are having a more pronounced effect on the physical and social properties of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) (Wu and Zhang, 2008;Yao et al, 2012;Chakraborty et al, 2015;Li et al, 2018;Gao et al, 2019).…”