Livelihood Resilience, Climate Risk Management and Agriculture in the Mid-Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe
Citation
Nyamwanza, A. (2019) ‘Livelihood resilience, climate risk management and agriculture in the Mid-Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe’, in Y. Bamutaze, S. Kyamanywa, B.R. Singh, G. Nabanoga, and R. Lal (eds) Agriculture and Ecosystem Resilience in Sub Saharan Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 473–486. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12974-3_21.
Abstract
This chapter is a research article which utilizes the livelihood resilience and climate risk management constructs to explore climatic sensitivities and response strategies to these sensitivities within African agricultural systems using a case study of the mid-Zambezi valley area in northern Zimbabwe. Discussions in this chapter are based on a 6-year longitudinal qualitative primary fieldwork research focused on livelihood resilience, climate change adaptation and climate information needs in the case study area. The chapter positions research results within a broader conversation of how to adequately deal with barriers to and effectively stimulate the enablers of livelihood resilience and climate risk management within rural agricultural and livelihood systems in Africa.