Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change for Ethiopian Agriculture: Identification of Impacts, Coping Mechanisms, and Adaptation Options A Case of Adiarkay District, Ethiopia - Tapa blanda

Teshome, Endalkachew; Birkie, Hailemariam; Mengesha, Desalegn

 
9783843393034: Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change for Ethiopian Agriculture: Identification of Impacts, Coping Mechanisms, and Adaptation Options A Case of Adiarkay District, Ethiopia
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ISBN 10: 3843393036 ISBN 13: 9783843393034
Editorial: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Sinopsis

Climate change is now becoming an environmental and development challenge of the 21st century. These extreme events affect livelihoods, especially those of the poor. Inception meetings with key stakeholders, PRA assessment, awareness creation conferences, & focus group discussion were conducted. Problems i.e. frequent drought, land slide, flooding, extreme heat, diseases and pests, low productivity in both crop and livestock were identified. Local coping mechanisms i.e. terrace on the farming land, planting improved seeds, apply artificial and manure fertilizers in the fields, irrigation, sowing short period crop. Current climate variability is already imposing a significant challenge to Ethiopia by affecting food security, water and energy supply, poverty reduction sustainable development efforts, causing natural resource degradation and natural disasters.

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Reseña del editor

Climate change is now becoming an environmental and development challenge of the 21st century. These extreme events affect livelihoods, especially those of the poor. Inception meetings with key stakeholders, PRA assessment, awareness creation conferences, & focus group discussion were conducted. Problems i.e. frequent drought, land slide, flooding, extreme heat, diseases and pests, low productivity in both crop and livestock were identified. Local coping mechanisms i.e. terrace on the farming land, planting improved seeds, apply artificial and manure fertilizers in the fields, irrigation, sowing short period crop. Current climate variability is already imposing a significant challenge to Ethiopia by affecting food security, water and energy supply, poverty reduction sustainable development efforts, causing natural resource degradation and natural disasters.

Biografía del autor

2004-2007: Ph.D. in Natural Resource Management in BOKU University, Vienna, Austria (Regeneration Ecology of Erica arborea in the Simen Mountains National Park and the Surrounding Area, north west Ethiopia) 1998-1999: MSc. Degree in Environmental Forestry from School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences University of Wales, Bangor Gwynedd, UK.

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Editorial
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
3843393036
ISBN 13 
9783843393034
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Número de páginas
84
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