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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...

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Published in:Third World Quarterly Vol. 31; no. 8; pp. 1321 - 1339
Main Author: Blackwell, PJ
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2010
Subjects:
Climate change
Turkana (African people)
Pastoral societies
Global warming
Food relief
Social history
Kenya
East Africa
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