Climate variability and rural livelihoods: assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecasts in Lesotho

By Gina Ziervogel, Rebecca Calder. 2003

197 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management Science and Operations Research, Soil Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. A. Dougill
2. H. Osbahr
3. T. Crane
4. B. Orlove
5. Carla Roncoli
6. K. O’Brien
7. P. Antwi‐Agyei
8. W. Adger

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Carla Roncoli
2. B. Orlove
3. T. Crane
4. K. O’Brien
5. Evan D. G. Fraser
6. A. Dougill

In Soil Science

1. A. Dougill
2. T. Crane
3. B. Orlove
4. Carla Roncoli
5. K. O’Brien
6. P. Antwi‐Agyei
7. W. Adger
8. Lindsay C. Stringer

Citations in the corpus

• How do small-holder farmers understand insurance, and how much do they want it? Evidence from Africa. (2010, background): “Since then, there has been a continued effort both to document farmers’ coping strategies, and to test ways of augmenting their capacity (Thomas et al., 2007; Ziervogel and Calder, 2003).”
• Agent-based social simulation: a method for assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecast applications among smallholder farmers (2005, background): “Because forecasts are not widely used at present, the impacts of forecasts are difficult to assess (Ziervogel and Calder, 2003).”
• Who can eat information? Examining the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecasts and regional climate-risk management strategies (2006, background): “…arena in southern Africa, work at the local level is showing some progress, particularly on the use and uptake by smaller-scale producers (Patt & Gwata 2002, Ziervogel & Calder 2003) as well as ongoing efforts to understand the needs of other end users (e.g. government sectors, water users etc).”
• Fielding Climate Change in Cultural Anthropology (2009, methodology): “The livelihood approach has often been applied to sustainable development and environmental management efforts, but rarely to climate adaptation (Keil et al., in press; Eakin 2006; Ziervogel and Calder 2003).”
• Effective livelihood adaptation to climate change disturbance: Scale dimensions of practice in Mozambique (2008, background): “…early-warning systems developed to alleviate the worst impacts, based on insights into how households use their productive and non-productive assets when faced with agricultural production failures (Tschirley and Weber, 1994; Davies, 1996; Ziervogel and Calder, 2003; Howe and Devereux, 2004).”
• Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “…further, an assessment of livelihoods offers the opportunity to highlight the various adaptations that might be available to determine how rural communities can cope with declining crop yields due to drought, and also how such declining yields can affect livelihoods (see Ziervogel and Calder 2003).”