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Table 3 Pastoral communities’ drought adaptation strategies

From: Livestock population dynamics and pastoral communities’ adaptation to rainfall variability in communal lands of Kgalagadi South, Botswana

Adaptation strategy

Pastoral community

  

Bokspits (n=40)

Vaalhoek (n=31)

χ 2

P-value

Destocking

82.5

83.9

0.023

>0.05

Supplementary feeding

80.0

100

6.99

<0.05

Mobility

67.5

41.9

4.6

<0.05