Pastoral community coping and adaptation strategies to manage household food insecurity consequent to climatic hazards in the cattle corridor of Uganda
Pastoral community coping and adaptation strategies to manage household food insecurity consequent to climatic hazards in the cattle corridor of Uganda
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DOI：
10.1080/17565529.2019.1605283
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发表时间：
2020-02-07
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Kabasa, John David
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作者：
Mayanja, Maureen Nanziri;Rubaire-Akiiki, Chris;Kabasa, John David
制定短期和长期措施，以确保牧民和农牧民家庭在极端气候时期获得粮食，可以为支持类似条件下的家庭提供见解。2013年1月至2月，采用半结构化的提问方式，在乌干达中部牛道走廊，从病例家庭中有意挑选的15名参与者和13名社区领导人接受了采访。专题分析揭示了四种应对策略：收获未成熟的粮食作物、出售牲畜、寻找替代水源以及利用其他非生产手段获取粮食。确定的三种适应战略是：使生计活动多样化、改变农业做法和投资于替代水源。一些策略与作物系统的增量变化有关，以保持现有的实践方式。然而，有些是变革性的，比如以前专业的牲畜饲养者开始种植农作物。有些战略具有环境侵蚀效应；这可以通过评估与增量适应相关的多样化和变革实践的机会成本来遏制。收集到的见解可以帮助研究人员考虑深入适应分析的各个方面，并告知乌干达的政策和制度如何用于促进而不是破坏牧民的应对和适应；从而指导加强粮食安全的干预措施。
Establishing short and long term measures that pastoral and agropastoral households use to ensure they have access to food in periods of climate extremes could provide insights into ways to support households in similar conditions. Using semi-structured elicitation, 15 purposively selected participants from case households and 13 community leaders, in the central cattle corridor of Uganda were interviewed in January to February 2013. Thematic analysis revealed four coping strategies: harvesting immature food crops, selling off cattle, searching for alternative water sources and using alternative non-production-based means to access food. Three adaptation strategies identified were: diversifying livelihood activities, changing agricultural practices and investing in alternative water sources. Several strategies were related to incremental crop system changes, to maintain the existing way of practice. However, some were transformational, like formerly specialized livestock keepers taking on crop farming. Some strategies presented environmentally erosive effects; which could be curbed by evaluating the opportunity cost of diversification and transformative practices in relation to incremental adaptation. Insights gleaned could assist researchers to consider aspects for in-depth adaptation analysis and inform on how policies and institutions in Uganda could be used to facilitate, rather than undermine, pastoralists' coping and adaptation; and thus guide interventions to strengthen food security.