Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change for Ethiopian Agriculture

Endalkachew Teshome

ISBN 10: 3843393036 / ISBN 13: 9783843393034

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2012, 2012

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Neuware -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.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 84 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change for Ethiopian Agriculture
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843393036
• ISBN 13: 9783843393034
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 6D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 6 millimeters depth
• Weight: 143 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.