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Pastoralism and Climate Change Adaptation

Pastoralism and Climate Change Adaptation. Where Mbororo People and Official Science Meet. By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim AFPAT Coordinator IPACC Sahel Region Represent Mbororo From Chad hindououmar@gmail.com. Introduction.

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Pastoralism and Climate Change Adaptation

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  1. Pastoralism and Climate Change Adaptation Where Mbororo People and Official Science Meet By Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim AFPAT Coordinator IPACC Sahel Region Represent Mbororo From Chad hindououmar@gmail.com

  2. Introduction • The value of grassroots involvement in climate-related decision-making has received attention in several official climate policy documents • Nonetheless minority groups including indigenous people (e.g. mobile people / pastoralists) are still largely excluded from climate-related decision-making

  3. Introduction (cont.) 3 • Climate science and related information can be used to great advantage to avoid and manage climatic risks and to take advantage of the opportunities arising from changed climate conditions • IPACC delegates in partnership with the WMO’s WCC3, IPACC, AFPAT, CTA and ASISO implement the the project “Influencing regional policy processes in Climate Change Adaptation through the merger of African pastoralist traditional knowledge and atmospheric science”

  4. Traditional knowledge systems and climate change • Climate change impacts on local ecosystems and livelihood patterns

  5. TheCase of the Mbororo People

  6. About the Mbororo • Nomadic and semi-nomadic herders • Living in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Niger and Nigeria • 250.000 in Chad (1993 census) • Building on traditional knowledge systems to cope with seasonal weather patterns and sustainably manage meagre resources

  7. Challenges • Climate change & increasing restrictions on mobility • Increasing distances • Loss of livestock • Change of lifestyle • Distinctive needs rarely addressed

  8. Bridging knowledge systems • Climate science uses modern monitoring and forecasting systems to generate and provide a wide range of information on past, present and future • Local decision making: information & other factors e.g. social networks, local loyalties, cultural values, intuition, beliefs and age-old trust in traditional predictive systems • Ordinary people experience great difficulties in making their voice heard by scientists • Communication challenges between all of the above

  9. The traditional knowledge of Mbororo people allows them to predict atmospheric conditions EXEMPLES • The size and the shape of fruits produced by a certain palm tree may indicate whether or not the coming year will be good • Abundant offspring of a certain type of lizard is a predictor of a good season • Changes in the direction of the wind from East to West are an indicator of rain that will last for days • Although the sky may be clear, the occurrence of a particular insect species indicates that it is about to rain

  10. Wayforward • Participatory use of tested ICTs to document Traditional Knowledge 10

  11. Way forward • Multi-stakeholder dialogue and exchange 11

  12. THANK YOU hindououmar@gmail.com www.afpattchad.org www.ipacc.org.za www.cta.int

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