Social vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change in Zambia: the applicability of social vulnerability index

Social vulnerability to climate

Social vulnerability to climate in the “Little Ice Age”: an example from Central Europe in the early 1770s C. Pfister and R. Brázdil Institute of History/NCCR Climate, University of Bern, Unitobler, CH-3000 Bern 9, Switzerland Institute of Geography, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, The Czech Republic Received: 1 February 2006 – Accepted: 22 March 2006 – Published: 7 April 2006 ...

Social vulnerability of small scale coastal fisher's livelihood to climate change

Fisheries support livelihood of over half a billion of people globally. Many of these people live in coastal regions of developing countries; and have limited capacity to adapt and build resilience in the face of climate change.  This research assesses the biophysical and socioeconomic characteristics of fishers in four coastal communities, Komenda, Elmina, Cape coast and Morree, in Ghana. Stru...

Extreme vulnerability of smallholder farmers to agricultural risks and climate change in Madagascar

Across the tropics, smallholder farmers already face numerous risks to agricultural production. Climate change is expected to disproportionately affect smallholder farmers and make their livelihoods even more precarious; however, there is limited information on their overall vulnerability and adaptation needs. We conducted surveys of 600 households in Madagascar to characterize the vulnerabilit...

Designing an index of structural vulnerability to climate change

Introduction Since climate change has been recognized as a dominant issue for world economy and policy, resources have been looked for financing mitigation as well as adaptation. Logically allocation criteria should be different for mitigation and adaptation. As for adaptation, the criteria should reflect the need of the countries and their capacity to effectively use the resources. The same is...

Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi