Exploring the strategies for households to adapt to climate-change in arid and semiarid East Africa.

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    General
    Keywords
    strategies, climate-change, East Africa
    Author
    Ng'ang'a, Stanley K.
    Promotor
    Prof. Dr Erwin H. Bulte, Prof. Dr Ken E. Giller
    Co-promotors
    Prof. Dr Mariana C. Rufino
    Date
    Country
    East Africa
    Abstract

    In the arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs)1 of East Africa, most of the people are pastoralists and agro-pastoralists; their agricultural production depends primarily on livestock keeping and to a lesser extent on the cultivation of maize, millet and sorghum and legumes such as beans, green gram, pigeon pea and cowpea (FAO, 2013). These pastoralists and agro-pastoralists face major risks of livestock death and crop failures...

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