Springing back: climate resilience at Africa’s grassroots

Opinion paper
, 2 pages
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17038IIED.pdf
Language:
English
Published: May 2008
Sustainable Development Opinion Papers
Product code:17038IIED

Climate change is often seen as a global problem demanding global solutions. But for poor people hit hard by the impacts, climate change is a not a boardroom abstraction, but day-to-day reality. Faced with local shifts in weather patterns and natural resources, they are forced to find ways of coping that are locally relevant. This kind of experience, gained at the grassroots, boosts resilience as no top-down initiative can.

Three case studies from rural communities in Benin, Kenya and Malawi show how it is done.

Cite this publication

Vermeulen, S., Dossou, K., Macqueen, D., Walubengo, D. and Nangoma, E. (2008). Springing back: climate resilience at Africa’s grassroots. .
Available at https://www.iied.org/17038iied