Camels and Climate Resilience: Adaptation in Northern Kenya
Camels and Climate Resilience: Adaptation in Northern Kenya
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骆驼和气候适应能力：肯尼亚北部的适应
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2016
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B. H. Dabasso
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作者：
Elizabeth E. Watson;H. H. Kochore;B. H. Dabasso
在非洲旱地，牧民面临新的挑战，包括与环境冲击和压力有关的挑战。在肯尼亚北方，在降雨量减少和干旱更加频繁的情况下，牧民的一种应对措施是越来越多地侧重于骆驼放牧。骆驼已经开始在更高的海拔地区饲养，而且饲养者以前很少养骆驼。这一发展被理解为一种气候变化适应战略，也是提高气候适应能力的一种手段。自2003年以来，发展组织开始通过在该地区分发骆驼来推动这一趋势。到目前为止，人们对日益依赖骆驼的性质、原因或后果知之甚少。该文件讨论了这些问题，并得出结论认为，骆驼提高了这一干旱地区的复原力，但仅在某些气候变化情景下，而且仅对某些群体。
In the drylands of Africa, pastoralists have been facing new challenges, including those related to environmental shocks and stresses. In northern Kenya, under conditions of reduced rainfall and more frequent droughts, one response has been for pastoralists to focus increasingly on camel herding. Camels have started to be kept at higher altitudes and by people who rarely kept camels before. The development has been understood as a climate change adaptation strategy and as a means to improve climate resilience. Since 2003, development organizations have started to further the trend by distributing camels in the region. Up to now, little has been known about the nature of, reasons for, or ramifications of the increased reliance on camels. The paper addresses these questions and concludes that camels improve resilience in this dryland region, but only under certain climate change scenarios, and only for some groups.