Climate resilience and traditional forms of pastoralism in Tanzania
Even in the harshest of sub-Saharan environments, there are promising low-cost approaches we can use, so that income-poor rural pastoralists can successfully adapt to climate change, without giving up their way of life. In Australia, many are acutely aware of the increasing impacts of climate change on Pacific Island countries. But countries in East Africa, including Tanzania, are also prone to increasing climate variability and extreme events such as droughts and floods. While there is some uncertainty about exactly how climate change will play out in East Africa, its impacts are already hitting communities hard. And women, who are disproportionately affected by climate change , are bearing the brunt. The most recent drought in East Africa lasted more than four years and set new records earlier this year, as rains failed for a fifth season in a row. As the pendulum now swings towards floods, in line with scientists’ projections, the region is becoming one of the m...