Climate variability and impacts on East African livestock herders: The Maasai of Ngorongoro conservation area, Tanzania | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
décembre 2004
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handle:10568/29985
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East African pastoral adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and climate change is assessed, using data from decision making processes and ecological data of the Maasai of Ngorongoro Conservation Area as an example. The paper uses integrated modeling, linking PHEWS, a household model, to SAVANNA, an ecosystem model to look at the effects of drought and a series of wet years on the well-being of Maasai pastoralists. Model results suggest that the ecosystem is quite resilient and suggests that the Maasai of the NCA are not very vulnerable to climate variability. However the economic situation in the NCA is precarious and food insecurity is prevalent without drought. The result is that drought has a very negative effect on people.

Auteurs et éditeurs

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Galvin, K.A.
Boone, R.B.
Sunderland, J.
Thornton, Philip K.

Fournisseur de données

CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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