Building community based adaptation and resilience to climate change in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorGwali, Samson
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-28T11:01:41Z
dc.date.available2022-12-28T11:01:41Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractClimate change and its impacts are already being felt in Uganda in the form of erratic rains, drought, famine, floods and landslides. These hazards do not only affect the crop life cycle but also the entire value chain from pre-production to post-harvest storage, marketing and transport. This ultimately leads to serious socioeconomic consequences in food security, health, and economic development. The reality of climate change is no longer in doubt and therefore, it is important to prepare and adapt to its impacts through appropriate adaptation and resilience strategies. However, resource – poor communities, households and individuals with least resources have the least capacity to adapt to the impacts. Since the linkages between climate change and land degradation are very high, there is a real need to devise community adaptation and resilience strategies that include sustainable land management. These adaptation and resilience strategies include a range of re-greening interventions, such as farmer managed natural regeneration and its variants such as “Ngitili” and community exclosures as well as conservation agricultural practices like “bocage” and “Zai” in West Africa. This paper presents a set of adaptation and resilience interventions implemented by the National Forestry Resources Research Institute (NaFORRI) in various parts of Uganda. These range from agroforestry, avoided deforestation to alternative livelihoods. It is, however, recommended that, in designing and implementing these community adaptation and resilience interventions, great care and consideration should be taken of the gender relations, wealth, power relations, culture and traditions existing in the local communities.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGwali, S. (2014). Building community based adaptation and resilience to climate change in Uganda. In Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration National Conference. Kampala, Uganda: World Vision, July.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://fmnrhub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Sam-Gwali_Adaptation-and-Resilience.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6688
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWorld Visionen_US
dc.subjectCommunityen_US
dc.subjectAdaptationen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectClimate changeen_US
dc.titleBuilding community based adaptation and resilience to climate change in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
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