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Impacts of Climate Change in Mandera County
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https://naturalnomaddotblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/impacts-of-climate-change-in-mandera-county/
A thread
https://naturalnomaddotblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/impacts-of-climate-change-in-mandera-county/
Climate variability and change pose serious threats to agricultural production and livelihoods in Mandera County.
Considering past climatic trends and future projections, drought and increasing temperatures have posing posing the greatest risks to overall agricultural production and livelihoods in the county.
Climate change has greatly impacted the two main sources of livelihoods for the people of Mandera County.
On animal husbandry: Pastoralism remains the dominant mode of livestock production system in Mandera. Mobility means that pastoralism is inherently adaptive to climate change.
However, recurrent droughts and the resultant rangeland degradation has seen most pastoralists shift to epicyclic translocation, moving anywhere to places with adequate pasture and water as opposed to the otherwise organized transhumance.
This contributes to the escalation of resource conflicts and reduced livestock productivity.
Climate change impacts has also been linked to emerging and re-emerging livestock diseases, such as Rift Valley Fever (RVF), peste des petits ruminants (PPR), bluetongue, Trypanosomiasis, sudden camel death syndrome, and enterotoxaemia.
Others are anthrax, foot and mouth, East Coast Fever, goat pox, respiratory diseases in sheep and goats and some skin diseases or infections.
As a result of climate change consequences, increase in temperatures is creating conditions that suit and sustain the spread of animal pests like ticks and Tsetse flies.
On Crop farming: Mandera County is ecologically diverse, with rain-fed crop farming practiced along river Daua in Mandera East, Mandera North and Lafey Sub counties.
However, climate change principally reduced rainfall and increased temperatures leading to unsustainable agricultural practices and incompatible land use have all contributed to successive crop failure.
Increased rates of runoff, soil erosion, crop destruction by wildlife, locust invasion, limited inputs as well as pests and diseases have magnified crop losses. Farmers in Mandera County Observe that there is a remarkable reduction in crop productivity and production.
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