检索结果-南通市图书馆

Camel management as an adaptive strategy to climate change by pastoralists in southern Ethiopia

Ecological Processes 2017年第1期6卷 273-284页

作者： Galma Wako Menfese Tadesse Ayana Angassa Wondo-Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resource Hawassa UniversityShashamaneEthiopia Department of Animal Science and Production Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural ResourcesGaboroneBotswana

Introduction:Experiences of low rainfall and frequent droughts have had enormous impacts on livestock production and pastoralists’livelihoods in southern *** borana pastoralists are dependent on livestock husbandry with the dominance of cattle in their herds for ***,the borana communities have engaged in extensive livestock species diversification,with more focus on camel management as an adaptation strategy to the severity of recurrent *** increasing interests in camel management among the borana pastoralists are acknowledged,the driving forces for the increase in camel population in the region have not been *** aim of this study was to assess the trend in camel management as an adaptation strategy towards climate change among the borana pastoral *** study also investigated evidence of climate change and the driving factors for camel ***:The study was conducted in three purposively selected kebeles,which is a lower administrative unit in Ethiopia,of Yabello district in borana zone in southern Ethiopia focusing on 156 randomly selected camel-owning *** study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods whereby data gathering tools such as key informant interviews(KII),focus group discussions(FGD),household surveys(HS),and field observations were *** data were analyzed by descriptive statistics using SPSS software version ***:Pastoralists’perceptions and the existing meteorological data analysis showed an increasing trend in temperature but a decreasing pattern in rainfall over the last 27 years(i.e.,during the last four Gada periods).Both pastoralists’observations and existing meteorological data analysis showed an increasing incidence of recurrent droughts with decreasing availability of grazing and water *** further explained that cattle are more vulnerable during severe *** findings also showed that camel management as an adaptation st

关键词： Climate change Camel management Pastoral households borana zone Southern Ethiopia

来源：

维普期刊数据库评论

在线全文

维普期刊数据库

学校读者我要写书评

暂无评论

欢迎您,

建议与咨询留下您的常用邮箱和电话号码，以便我们向您反馈解决方案和替代方法

时间限定

文献类型

馆藏选择

核心期刊

语言

文献类型

帮助

文字说明：

检索规则说明：

检索范例：

分类表

所选分类

限定检索结果

文献类型

馆藏范围

日期分布

学科分类号

主题

机构

作者

语言

在线全文

请选择保存的检索档案：

请选择收藏分类：

通借通还

欢迎您,

建议与咨询 留下您的常用邮箱和电话号码，以便我们向您反馈解决方案和替代方法

时间限定

文献类型

馆藏选择

核心期刊

语言

文献类型

帮助

文字说明：

检索规则说明：

检索范例：

分类表

所选分类

限定检索结果

文献类型

馆藏范围

日期分布

学科分类号

主题

机构

作者

语言

在线全文

请选择保存的检索档案： 新增检索档案 确定 取消

请选择收藏分类： 新增自定义分类 确定 取消

通借通还

建议与咨询留下您的常用邮箱和电话号码，以便我们向您反馈解决方案和替代方法

请选择保存的检索档案：

请选择收藏分类：