Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia
This study aimed to appraise the role of local institutions in adaptation to changing climate at the local level in the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Ethiopia. Thirty-one years of climate data were analyzed by employing the Mann–Kendall trend and Sen’s slope test techniques. The surve...
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| description | This study aimed to appraise the role of local institutions in adaptation to changing climate at the local level in the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Ethiopia. Thirty-one years of climate data were analyzed by employing the Mann–Kendall trend and Sen’s slope test techniques. The survey was conducted on 400 households that were systematically randomized from 7066 households, while community-level data were collected through the participatory rural appraisal (PRA) technique. The entire analysis was framed by a tetragonal model. The results of the analysis indicated that temperature exhibited a significantly increasing trend, while rainfall, which is statistically related to temperature, showed a decreasing trend, resulting in lingering droughts and human and animal diseases. Major livestock declined by 69%. As a response, while Sidama indigenous institutions were well-functioning and nurtured through local knowledge, and the governmental and civic ones were entrenched with various limitations. Contextual fitness and compatibility, interplay, inclusiveness, and sustainability of their operations in temporal and spatial scales were some of their limitations. Therefore, federal and local governments should focus on monitoring, evaluating, and learning aspects of their grand strategies, review general education, farmers’ credit, and civic institutions’ governance policies and strengthen the synergy of civic, government, and indigenous institutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e34ff1fffd164bc9ae05f1e9566a48f72023-11-21T00:51:48ZengMDPI AGClimate2225-11542020-12-0181214910.3390/cli8120149Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern EthiopiaFirew Bekele0Degefa Tolossa1Teshale Woldeamanuel2Climate Change and Bio-Energy Development, Department of General Forestry, Wondogenet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University, Hawassa P.O. Box 130, EthiopiaDepartment of Geography and Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ministry of Peace, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa P.O. Box 150229, EthiopiaDepartment of Natural Resource and Environmental Studies, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hawassa University, Shashemene P.O. Box 128, EthiopiaThis study aimed to appraise the role of local institutions in adaptation to changing climate at the local level in the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Ethiopia. Thirty-one years of climate data were analyzed by employing the Mann–Kendall trend and Sen’s slope test techniques. The survey was conducted on 400 households that were systematically randomized from 7066 households, while community-level data were collected through the participatory rural appraisal (PRA) technique. The entire analysis was framed by a tetragonal model. The results of the analysis indicated that temperature exhibited a significantly increasing trend, while rainfall, which is statistically related to temperature, showed a decreasing trend, resulting in lingering droughts and human and animal diseases. Major livestock declined by 69%. As a response, while Sidama indigenous institutions were well-functioning and nurtured through local knowledge, and the governmental and civic ones were entrenched with various limitations. Contextual fitness and compatibility, interplay, inclusiveness, and sustainability of their operations in temporal and spatial scales were some of their limitations. Therefore, federal and local governments should focus on monitoring, evaluating, and learning aspects of their grand strategies, review general education, farmers’ credit, and civic institutions’ governance policies and strengthen the synergy of civic, government, and indigenous institutions.https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/8/12/149Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zoneparticipatory rural appraisallocal institutionslocal-level adaptationSidama indigenous knowledgetetragonal |
| spellingShingle | Firew Bekele Degefa Tolossa Teshale Woldeamanuel Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia Climate Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone participatory rural appraisal local institutions local-level adaptation Sidama indigenous knowledge tetragonal |
| title | Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia |
| title_full | Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia |
| title_short | Local Institutions and Climate Change Adaptation: Appraising Dysfunctional and Functional Roles of Local Institutions from the Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama, Southern Ethiopia |
| title_sort | local institutions and climate change adaptation appraising dysfunctional and functional roles of local institutions from the bilate basin agropastoral livelihood zone of sidama southern ethiopia |
| topic | Bilate Basin Agropastoral Livelihood Zone participatory rural appraisal local institutions local-level adaptation Sidama indigenous knowledge tetragonal |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/8/12/149 |
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