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Pastoralism and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenyan Masailand

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Title Pastoralism and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenyan Masailand
 
Creator Osano, Philip M.
 
Contributor Said, Mohammed
de Leeuw, Jan
Moiko, Stephen S.
Kaelo, Dickson Ole
Schomers, Sarah
Birner, Regina
Ogutu, Joseph O.
 
Subject conservancies
ecosystem‐based adaptation
maasai
 
Description Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the potential for pastoral communities inhabiting. Kenyan Masailand to adapt to climate change using conservancies and payments for ecosystem services. Design/methodology/approach – Multiple methods and data sources were used, comprising: a socio-economic survey of 295 households; informal interviews with pastoralists, conservancy managers, and tourism investors; focus group discussions; a stakeholder workshop. Monthly rainfall data was used to analyse drought frequency and intensity. A framework of the interactions between pastoralists’ drought coping and risk mitigation strategies and the conservancy effects was developed, and used to qualitatively assess some interactions across the three study sites. Changes in household livestock holdings and sources of cash income are calculated in relation to the 2008-09 drought.
Findings – The frequency and intensity of droughts are increasing but are localized across the three study sites. The proportion of households with per capita livestock holdings below the 4.5 TLU poverty vulnerability threshold increased by 34 per cent in Kitengela and 5 per cent in the Mara site, mainly due to the drought in 2008-2009. Payment for ecosystem services was found to buffer households from fluctuating livestock income, but also generates synergies and/or trade-offs depending on land use restrictions.
Originality/value – The contribution of conservancies to drought coping and risk mitigation strategies of pastoralists is analyzed as a basis for evaluating the potential for ecosystem-based adaptation.
 
Date 2013-06-30
2016-02-16T13:08:51Z
2016-02-16T13:08:51Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/DI1TMMZZ
Philip M. Osano, Mohammed Said, Jan de Leeuw, Stephen S. Moiko, Dickson Ole Kaelo, Sarah Schomers, Regina Birner, Joseph O. Ogutu. (30/6/2013). Pastoralism and ecosystem-based adaptation in Kenyan Masailand. Emerald.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4544
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher CRP on Dryland Systems (DS)
 
Source Emerald;(2013)