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Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania

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Title Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania
 
Creator Galvin, K.A.
Thornton, Philip K.
Boone, Randall B.
Sunderland, J.
 
Subject adaptation
climate change
climate
resource conservation
drought
herds
households
livestock
models
pastoralism
ecology
 
Description East African pastoral adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and climate change is assessed, using data from decision making processes and ecological data of the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area as an example. The paper uses integrated modeling, linking PHEWS, a household model, to SAVANNA, an ecosystem model to look at the effects of drought and a series of wet years on the well-being of Maasai pastoralists. Model results suggest that the ecosystem is quite resilient and suggests that the Maasai of the NCA are not very vulnerable to climate variability. However the economic situation in the NCA is precarious and food insecurity is prevalent without drought. The result is that drought has a very negative effect on people.
 
Date 2004-12
2013-06-11T09:25:42Z
2013-06-11T09:25:42Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier African Journal of Range & Forage Science;21(3): 183-189
1022-0119
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/29985
https://doi.org/10.2989/10220110409485850
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format p. 183-189
 
Publisher National Inquiry Services Center (NISC)
 
Source African Journal of Range and Forage Science