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Title: | Climate change, impacts and peasant farmers adaptation strategies in the Western Cameroon High Plateau |
Authors: | Ojuku, Tiafack Enchaw, Gabriel Bachange Tsalefac, Maurice |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Annales de la Faculté des Arts, Lettres et Sciences Humaines |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 11 |
Pages: | 341-362 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | climate change peasantry environmental management |
Abstract: | For more than twenty years, the Western Cameroon High Plateau has experienced a succession of climate anomalies, including an increase in the length of the dry season, rising temperatures, and inadequate and irregular rainfall. This has had a dramatic impact on the socioeconomic system of the region, which is based on traditional agriculture and livestock grazing. There has been a drastic increase in farmer-grazier conflicts over land and water. At the same time, the mountain forest is being destroyed for farming, fuelwood production and commercialization. Nomadic pastoralists have been obliged to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle or to migrate to distant areas. Peasant farmers have adopted various coping strategies, including the revival of traditional conservation strategies and the adoption of new water management techniques. There is an urgent need for a holistic approach to deal with the issues of deforestation, soil erosion and population impoverishment. Bibliogr., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract] |