East Africa's Pastoralist Emergency: is climate change the straw that breaks the camel's back?
The global warming trend of climate change is having severe adverse effects on the livelihoods of the Turkana pastoralists of northwestern Kenya. Care has to be taken in making assertions about the impact of climate change. The biggest effects may come not from lower average rainfall but from a wide...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 1321 - 1339 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=57320739&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 57320739 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01436597 TWQ jtl: Third World Quarterly issn: 01436597 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2010 vid: 31 iid: 8 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 57320739 10.1080/01436597.2010.541085 ppf: 1321 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 227KB tig: atl: East Africa's Pastoralist Emergency: is climate change the straw that breaks the camel's back? aug: au: Blackwell, PJ affil: PJ Blackwell is currently working in Malawi. su: Climate change Turkana (African people) Pastoral societies Global warming Food relief Social history Kenya East Africa sug: subj: Kenya East Africa Climate change Turkana (African people) Pastoral societies Global warming Food relief Social history ab: The global warming trend of climate change is having severe adverse effects on the livelihoods of the Turkana pastoralists of northwestern Kenya. Care has to be taken in making assertions about the impact of climate change. The biggest effects may come not from lower average rainfall but from a widening of the standard deviation as weather extremes become more frequent. In a region already prone to drought, disease and conflict, climate change, access to modern weapons and new viral livestock diseases are now overwhelming pastoralists' coping capacity and deepening the region's roughly 30-year dependency on famine relief. This article examines the livelihood strategies of the Turkana and several poverty reduction programmes currently established, while addressing the reality that traditional pastoralism may no longer be a viable livelihood option, given the effects of climate change, disease and the ensuing conflict over diminishing resources. The findings conclude that the future for traditional Turkana pastoralists is dismal because they continue to depend on an environment that may no longer support them. Humanitarians are recommended to shift their focus to advocate and invest in alternative livelihood strategies that generate economic independence and help the Turkana adapt to their changing environment. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Third World Quarterly is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Third World Quarterly holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2010 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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