Climate change and shifting land-use: Consequences for smallholder agroforestry systems and rural livelihoods in the southwest Ethiopian Highlands
- Applying a Regional Integrated Vulnerability Assessment (RIVAS), this study aims to identify the local farming system characteristics of 54 smallholder agroforestry farms in Kafa Zone (Ethiopia), their climate change vulnerability, and how they are affected by current land-use changes. The study combines semi-structured interviews with a biophysical characterization of farm systems. The results show that the assessed farming systems’ multifunctionality is essential to rural livelihoods while sustaining crop and tree diversity. While dry season crop diversity drives household’s sufficiency and capacity to respond to crop failure, medium-low sufficiency of production in more than a third of the assessed systems, as well as soil degradation in cereal fields lessen adaptive capacity. For their contribution to climate resilience, diverse and perennial cropping regimes should be supported and maintained.
| Author: | Olef Koch, Pierre L. IbischORCiDGND, Ralf BlochORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:eb1-opus-4340 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2022.2067930 |
| Parent Title (English): | Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2022 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2022/04/25 |
| Embargo Date: | 2023/05/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule für nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde |
| Release Date: | 2023/04/14 |
| Tag: | agroecology; resilience; biosphere reserve; agrobiodiversity; cropping systems; Ensete ventricosum |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| First Page: | 672 |
| Last Page: | 711 |
| Institutions / Departments: | Fachbereich Landschaftsnutzung und Naturschutz |
| Fachbereich Wald und Umwelt | |
| University Bibliography: | University Bibliography |
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