Small-holder farmers in Eastern Kenya are faced with the constraint associated with climate variability and have consequently made effort at local level to utilize adaptation techniques in their quest to adapt to climate variability.
Their results, published in the journal PLoS ONE, call into question whether harp seals will be able to adapt to climate variability over the long run.
This study will present possible ways to integrate multi-scale weather/climate information and process-based crop simulation models to better adapt to climate variability and thus improve agricultural production.
Our results light a path forward to policy makers, water administrators, and farm managers, who bear the burden of protecting farm income, food and water security, and rural economic development in the world's dry regions faced by the need to adapt to climate variability.
Previous evidence (Opiyo et al. 2015) has also shown that the Turkana pastoralists in northern Kenya are using a variety of strategies to adapt to climate variability.
This study found that farmers' who perceived a change in temperature are more likely to adapt to climate variability by 16 and 14 times greater compared to those who do not perceived a rise in temperature.
While both the countries embrace the consequences of climate change, Pakistan suffers more due to its small resilience and resources to adapt to climate variability.
Therefore, the new initiative, ACREI, is aiming to enhance the capacity of these communities to cope and adapt to climate variability.
While adapting to climate change and climate variability may push up the cost of development in the short term, for most African countries adaptation is fundamentally about sound, resilient development and ensuring economic gains over the long term.
The ways in which water managers can adapt to contemporary climate variability, and which ultimately will serve as the foundation to adapting to climate change are described.
Further, research on the impact of climate change on agricultural production has mainly focused on the effect of climate and its variability on individual crops, while the potential for adapting to climate change through crop substitution has received less attention.
