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  • Climate change vulnerability and smallholder farmers’ adaptive responses in the semi-arid Far North Region of Cameroon
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  1. Moluh Njoya, Hamza |
  2. Matavel, Custodio Efraim |
  3. Msangi, Haji |
  4. NAPI WOUAPI, HERVE ALAIN |
  5. Löhr, Katharina |
  6. Sieber, Stefan |
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  • 2022-11-17
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  • 3(1):41
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  • 2022
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  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-022-00106-6 |
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  • Climate change and variability contribute to exacerbating poverty and social unrest in poor countries. Therefore, it becomes important to assess vulnerability and adaptation measures to raise awareness and monitoring of climate change adaptation policy for better decision-making. This research examines how farmers perceive their vulnerability and how they respond to climate change in the semi-arid Far North Region of Cameroon. Using both quantitative and qualitative approaches, data on perceptions with regards to vulnerability and adaptation responses to climate change related hazards were collected based on expert opinions, individual farmers’ interviews, and focus group discussion. The qualitative data were triangulated with direct observations in the field. The results reveal that farmers are mostly concerned about drought and decrease in rainfall. Thus, they have mainly implemented behavioral and locally-made options such as short-cycle varieties, terrace farming, half-moon, and bunds, among others, to overcome water shortages. Nevertheless, these measures were not solely driven by vulnerability; the socioeconomic context might play a role. Moreover, farmers perceive a limited capacity to adapt to climate change, which suggests that the government and policy-makers should focus, not only on implementing planned adaptation strategies, but also on the improvement and promotion of farmers’ autonomous adaptation strategies.
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lokal Adaptation
lokal Climate change
lokal Livelihoods
lokal Water shortage
lokal Agriculture
lokal Resilience
lokal Social vulnerability
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  1. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5067-2871|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-7887|http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1892-1353|http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1169-4688|http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-9712|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4849-7277
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  1. Projekt DEAL |
  2. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung |
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  2. International Climate Protection Fellowship Program 2021–2022
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