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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL RESEARCH
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 471-489Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09712119.2022.2103563
Keywords
Adaptation; climate change; drought; GDP; livestock; mitigation; pastoralism
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Drought is a severe natural disaster that causes economic hardships and stress for farmers and local economies, including productivity loss, population reduction, and livestock and crop damage. In Ethiopia, pastoralists on the border with Kenya and Somalia have suffered greatly from drought, resulting in high cattle mortality rates and mass migration. Developing drought adaptation and mitigation measures based on geography and livestock systems may improve the situation.
Drought is a complicated natural hazard that has far-reaching social and environmental impacts. In Ethiopia's diverse agro ecological zones, drought remains a severe challenge and problem. Livestock rising is one of the agricultural sub-sectors that provide income and livelihood to around one-third of African inhabitants and accounts for 30-50 percent of agricultural GDP. Pastoralists on the Ethiopia-Kenya-Somalia border endured extreme suffering, including the loss of nearly 80% of their cattle and huge migration out of drought-stricken areas. Drought can cause severe economic hardship and stress for farmers and local economies, like; lost productivity, population reduction, and the trauma of witnessing livestock, crops, soil, and native vegetation damage. Between 1990 and 2000, and 2001-2002/03, drought-related animal death rates in the Somali region increased by 60% and 80% of the entire cattle population, respectively. Drought has the greatest immediate effects on farmers, including depletion of water resources, crop failure, and an increase in food prices, ill health, livestock output losses and death, and a decline in livestock prices in the Borana zone. Drought adaptation and mitigation measures depending on geography and livestock system may improve the study's trajectory in the future if further review is done.
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