Developing a climate change education programme to address effects of climate variability on pastoral farming in Sinazongwe district of Southern province.
| dc.contributor.author | Syabwanta, Simpilo and Mweemba, Liberty | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-19T08:40:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-19T08:40:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of climate variability on pastoral farming and develop a Climate Change Education Programme (CCEP) to address the effects of Climate Variability on Pastoral farmers in Sinazongwe District of Southern Province of Zambia. The study was purely a qualitative guided by the methodological framework through a single case study. Data collection tools that were employed involved semi-structured interviews, Focus Group Discussion, Direct and Participant observations by using heterogeneous sampling, purposive sampling, convenient and expert sampling to select the 70 respondents. These included 45 households’ pastoral farmers, 10 Agricultural Officers and Veterinary officers, 15 local leaders The study shows that pastoral farmers were aware and had knowledge on the effects of climate variability to pastoral farming. Pastoral farmers had observed climate variability’s through increase in drought prevalence, changing rainfall pattern or precipitation, change in temperature, increase in diseases, pest and wind direction and occurrence. In this regard, education strategies are appropriate to address to increase the adaptive capacity among pastoral farmers to cope with effects of climate variability. There has been and there is still an extra-ordinary heightened tension, concerns and serious debate around the world on Climate Change and Variability. It is a true story of the 21st Century in which every group of people in the street, community, political leaders, business people, academic scholars and many others talk about the effects of climate variability in their respective areas or as a country. It has become a buzz-word in our society thereby no one can contradict or deny about the reality of the effects of Climate Variability (CV) and Climate Change (CC) being faced around the world. Today, every part of the world is facing an almost overwhelming array of environmental global challenges such as ecological degradation, pollutions, health problem, deforestation, poverty and Climate Change (IPCC, 2007). The challenges the country been experiencing had affected the growth of pastoral DEVELOPING A CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION PROGRAMME TO ADDRESS EFFECTS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON PASTORAL FARMING IN SINAZONGWE DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN PROVINCE, ZAMBIA by Simpilo Syabwanta and Dr. Liberty Mweemba. 2 farming and well-being of the people as a source of their livelihood. Pastoral farming as part of the agriculture sector been degraded and not utilised as it was previously, thus endangering the present and future generation in Zambia due to its poor contribution to the economic growth and national development. In this regard, there had been little or no serious adaptation strategies and programmes at global, continental, regional and country level that are designed with a purpose to address the increase effects of climate variability on pastoral farming. Henceforth, the existence of extension services had proved not futile to improve the status quo among pastoral farmers by increasing their coping and adaptive capacity in Sinazongwe District. In addition, prior studies had explained much on the perceptions of pastoral farmers, effects of climate change and variability and existing programme without proposing an educational strategies to address or curb the emerging problem that exist in the local context. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.unza.zm/handle/123456789/8561 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | The University of Zambia | |
| dc.title | Developing a climate change education programme to address effects of climate variability on pastoral farming in Sinazongwe district of Southern province. | |
| dc.type | Article |