The Trade and Climate Change Nexus: The Urgency and Opportunities for Developing Countries

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Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Through Trade in Kyela District, Tanzania

“…For instance, the adoption of relevant goods and services helps to reduce panic and stress among local communities while making them resilient farmers with sustained livelihoods. This is because climate information are useful in monitoring and improving goods and services that are required for adaptation (Brenton and Chemutai, 2021). Similarly, a study by Adams et al (2021) reported that traders are important actors in crop value chain because through their social networks they allow dissemination of climate information necessary for adaptation.…”

“…Further, due to climate change impacts such as flood, the trade related infrastructures such as markets and transport services have also been adversely affected. For instance, in rural remote and marginalized societies are likely to be the most affected by climate change due to destruction of infrastructures caused by floods that inhibit the linkages with urban centres (Kalinga et al, 2019;Brenton and Chemutai, 2021). The climate change impact are not only influencing farmers but also the consumers who rely on agricultural products for food as well other actors in the value chain of various crops (IPCC, 2019).…”

“…Although trade has found to lead to increased GHG emission, but it is also evident that trade is significant in climate change adaptation and in sustaining the resilience of rural farmers. This is because Trade forms a critical part of adaptation towards climate change through transferring cleaner production methods from one location to another and facilitates the distribution of various goods and services, which helps in recovery from vulnerable condition caused by climate change (Brenton and Chemutai, 2021). Also, trade encourages investments in climate-resilient infrastructures such as energy, transport and telecommunication infrastructures that promotes economic diversification among rural communities for attainment of reliance on agricultural sector (GCA, 2019).…”

“…This is because adaptation strategies varies from one area to another based on the knowledge, nature and perceptions of a particular society (Mavhula et al, 2021). Also, for efficient climate change adaptation, any strategy requires the consideration of location specific perception and development necessities as well as existing capacity of the community to address climate change and variability impacts (Brenton and Chemutai, 2021). Therefore, a more understanding on climate change adaptation is significant to identify various opportunities and potentials of profitability through adaptation which consequently, improves the resilience of livelihoods among rural households (Jiri and Mafongoya, 2018).…”

Africa under a Warming Climate: The Role of Trade Towards Building Resilient Adaptation in Agriculture

“…In Zambia, the drought that accompanied the 2015/16 El Niño season decreased affected households' maize yields by about 20 percent and their income by up to 37 percent (Alfani et al 2019). More broadly, evidence reviewed in Hallegate et al (2016) and Brenton and Chermutai (2021) shows that the adverse impacts of natural disasters tend to disproportionately affect vulnerable groups of society: the poor and marginalized; women; and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, many concentrated in rural areas.…”