Temporary migration and climate variation in eastern Africa

Mueller, Valerie; Sheriff, Glenn; Dou, Xiaoya; Gray, Clark

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104704

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“…The similarity of heat effects among rural and urban children is important given the widespread assumption that rural populations are most vulnerable to environmental change. Our study adds to other recent evidence that this assumption is flawed (Desbureaux & Rodella 2019;Mueller et al 2020), and that serious attention should be paid to the demographic and health effects of climate variability among urban populations. Rural and urban populations may differ more in the ways they are vulnerable to environmental change than in the magnitude of that vulnerability.…”

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confidence: 62%

“…Future work should draw on the rich, longitudinal datasets that are available in many countries within the region to assess the mechanisms that have been hypothesized but largely untested. At minimum, future studies of the nutritional impacts of climate should include parallel analyses of outcomes that correspond to hypothesized pathways (e.g., health and income), as has been common in other populationenvironment research (e.g., Mueller et al 2014;Mueller et al 2020;Sellers & Gray 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Climatic variability may also affect households' ability to access food through changes in income that are separate from impacts on crop yields or prices. For example, anomalous temperatures and precipitation may affect employment opportunities outside of the agricultural sector (Mueller et al 2020). They may also change the capacity or productivity of non-agricultural labor through physiological responses to environmental conditions (Dunne et al 2013;Dell et al 2012), with the resulting changes in earnings affecting households' food access.…”

Section: Climatic Variability and Nutritional Securitymentioning

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Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa

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2020

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Climatic variability affects many underlying determinants of child malnutrition, including food availability, access, and utilization. Evidence of the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation on children's nutritional status nonetheless remains limited. Research addressing this knowledge gap is merited given the short-and long-run consequences of malnutrition. We address this issue by estimating the effects of temperature and precipitation anomalies on the weight and wasting status of children ages 0-59 months across 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Linear regression models show that high temperatures and low precipitation are associated with reductions in child weight, and that high temperatures also lead to increased risk of wasting. We find little evidence of substantively meaningful differences in these effects across sub-populations of interest. Our results underscore the vulnerability of young children to climatic variability and its second-order economic and epidemiological effects. The study also highlights the corresponding need to design and assess interventions to effectively mitigate these impacts.

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Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa

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Strube

2020

Global Environmental Change

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“…In addition to droughts, floods, and other climate shocks, desertification impacts about 46 percent of the African continent and is accelerating due to climate change (Prăvălie, 2016). The resulting loss of soil fertility and biomass adversely impacts the health and economic livelihoods of communities, particularly those located in high-risk arid regions of the Sahel and Southern Africa (Mueller et al, 2020;Negev et al, 2019). In recent years, regional environmental agendas to combat desertification are increasingly being operationalized through multi-stakeholder arrangements (Asongu et al, 2018;Jonker & Robinson, 2018 Union, 2015; UNCCD, 2019).…”

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Managing Climate Change: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Building Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Graham

2020

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Research increasingly suggests that climate change has intensified the frequency of droughts, floods, and other environmental disasters across sub-Saharan Africa. In response to the resulting array of climate-induced challenges, various stakeholders are working collectively to build climate resilience in rural and urban communities and trans-continentally. This paper examines key climate resilience-building projects that have been implemented across sub-Saharan Africa through multi-stakeholder partnerships. It uses a vulnerabilities assessment approach to examine the strategic value of these projects in managing the mitigation of climate shocks and long-term environmental changes. There are still many challenges to building climate resilience in the region, but through multi-stakeholder partnerships, sub-Saharan African nations are expanding their capacity to pool resources and build collective action aimed at financing and scaling up innovative climate solutions. This article contributes to ongoing interdisciplinary academic, management, and policy discourses on global climate adaptation focused on populations and landscapes most at risk.

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Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

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Strube²

2019

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Climatic variability has been shown to affect many underlying determinants of child malnutrition, including food availability, access, and utilization. Evidence of the effects of changing temperatures and precipitation on children’s nutritional status nonetheless remains limited. Research addressing this knowledge gap is merited given the short- and long-run consequences of malnutrition. We contribute to the literature on this issue by estimating the effects of temperature and precipitation anomalies on the weight of children ages 0-59 months across 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Results from fixed-effects linear regression models show that precipitation anomalies have significant and non-linear effects on child weight, with sharp increases in thinness under dry conditions and minimal benefits to above-average precipitation. The negative effects of dry spells on acute malnutrition are significantly amplified by concurrent exposure to above-average temperatures. Tests for differences in the effects of climatic variability across sub-populations show statistically significant differences according to maternal education and children’s residence in rural or urban areas. Substantively, however, these differences are a matter of degree rather than kind. Our results underscore the vulnerability of young children to climatic variability and its second-order economic and epidemiological effects. The study also highlights the corresponding need to design and assess interventions to effectively mitigate these impacts.

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Temporary migration and climate variation in eastern Africa

Cited by 92 publications

References 72 publications

Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa

Climate variability and child nutrition: Findings from sub-Saharan Africa

Managing Climate Change: The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Building Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa

Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

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