Dealing with Climate-Related Risks: Some Pioneering Ideas for Enhanced Pastoral Risk Management in Africa

cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAndrew Mude: 0000-0003-4903-6613
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479710000888
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn0014-4797
cg.issn1469-4441
cg.issue2
cg.journalExperimental Agriculture
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTS
cg.subject.ilriINSURANCE
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCK
cg.subject.ilriPASTORALISM
cg.subject.ilriCLIMATE CHANGE
cg.volume47
dc.contributor.authorOuma, R.
dc.contributor.authorMude, Andrew G.
dc.contributor.authorSteeg, Jeannette van de
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-18T21:16:40Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-18T21:16:40Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/3742
dc.titleDealing with Climate-Related Risks: Some Pioneering Ideas for Enhanced Pastoral Risk Management in Africaen
dcterms.abstractThis paper makes the case for innovative risk management approaches in pastoral settings, which may include adjustments to the traditionally practiced approaches that have become progressively less effective. We use recent data from studies in Kenya and southern Ethiopia to confirm that traditional pastoral risk management approaches are increasingly futile against increasing external pressures, seasonal rainfall variability and future climate change. Some pioneering approaches and ideas, with potentially wider application to African pastoral settings, appear to offer greater hope; these include pilot studies designed to demonstrate the efficacy of index-based risk transfer products in pastoral systems, improvements in the management of food insecurity response for pastoralists and the recasting of development interventions as risk management. The International Livestock Research Institute, in collaboration with a wide range of partners, is currently testing these ideas.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientists
dcterms.available2011-03-25
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOuma, R.; Mude, A.; Steeg, J.A. van de; 2011. Dealing with Climate-Related Risks: Some Pioneering Ideas for Enhanced Pastoral Risk Management in Africa. Experimental Agriculture 47(2): 375-393en
dcterms.extentp. 375-393
dcterms.issued2011-04
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherCambridge University Press
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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