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Complexity, continuity and change: livelihood resilience in the Darfur region of Sudan
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- Darfur farming and pastoralist livelihoods are both adaptations to the environmental variability that characterises the region. This article describes this adaptation and the longer‐term transformation of these specialised livelihoods from the perspective of local communities. Over several decades farmers and herders have experienced a continuous stream of climate, conflict and other shocks, which, combined with wider processes of change, have transformed livelihoods and undermined livelihood institutions. Their well‐rehearsed specialist strategies are now combined with new strategies to cope. These responses help people get by in the short term but risk antagonising not only their specialist strategies but also those of others. A combination of factors has undermined the former integration between farming and pastoralism and their livelihood institutions. Efforts to build resilience in similar contexts must take a long‐term view of livelihood adaptation as a specialisation, and consider the implications of new strategies for the continuity and integration of livelihood specialisations.
- Subjects :
- Paper
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Climate Change
conflict
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Pastoralism
0211 other engineering and technologies
Climate change
Disaster Planning
maladaptive strategies
adaptation
02 engineering and technology
environmental variability
livelihoods
01 natural sciences
farming
Conflict, Psychological
Sudan
recovery
Development economics
Humans
Darfur
Adaptation (computer science)
resilience
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
seasonality
business.industry
transformation
General Social Sciences
Agriculture
Resilience, Psychological
Processes of change
Livelihood
Livestock farming
Papers
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Psychological resilience
Business
pastoralism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14677717 and 03613666
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3350e577b61b77e13e230caad8cc03e9