Livelihood vulnerability of rural households to climate variability and change: An agroecological system-based approach in northwestern Ethiopia

Tatek Belay, Tadele Melese Lebeza · 2024

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Tatek Belay and Tadele Melese Lebeza published a climate study in two thousand twenty-four on farm households in northwestern Ethiopia. Farming there depends on rain, so shifting weather hits livelihoods hard. How exposed a household is depends on its farming zone.

The team surveyed four hundred five households across lowland, midland, and highland zones, adding group talks and key interviews. Social, economic, and environmental signs were combined into vulnerability indices. Midland households came out least vulnerable, with lower exposure and stronger coping capacity. Lowland households were the most exposed and least able to adapt. Highlanders sat between. The authors argue adaptation plans must be tailored zone by zone.

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CREATORTatek Belay, Tadele Melese Lebeza
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE75 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11625134

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