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| Title: | Traditional coping mechanisms for climate change of pastoralists in South Omo, Ethiopia |
| Authors: | Gebresenbet, Fana
Kefale, Asnake |
| Keywords: | Traditional knowledge
Coping mechanism
Climate change
Pastoralism
Migration |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2012 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: E04H 9/16, A62B, G08, A47G 19/26, A47J 9/02 |
| Abstract: | Pastoral groups in the
Horn of Africa are marginalized and live under extreme poverty. Climate change
brings newer and more complicated challenges. It is expected that the frequency
and severity of extreme weather events will increase in the region. This will
have devastating consequences for the peoples of the region in general and the
pastoral communities in particular. This paper examines traditional coping
mechanisms that the Dassanech and Nyangatom pastoral groups of the South Omo
valley, southern Ethiopia
use. These include: migration, herd diversification, herd splitting, income
diversification, restocking and local alliances. The interventions of
governmental and non-governmental actors by and large overlook the capacity of
such traditional mechanisms. The Ethiopian government focuses on settlement in
its development intervention and believes that settling pastoral communities
through introduction of irrigation schemes would bring them a more ‘stable’ way
of life. However, we contend that introduction of
large-scale irrigation in the Omo valley would bring pastoral communities more
challenges than opportunities. The paper’s major conclusion
is that the adoption of viable policies to cope with the adverse impacts of
climate change in the Omo valley requires a concerted effort to recognize and
to utilize efficiently the traditional knowledge of pastoral groups.
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| Page(s): | 573-579 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.11(4) [October 2012]
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