Traditional gender inequalities limit pastoral women’s opportunities for adaptation to climate change: Evidence from the Afar pastoralists of Ethiopia

Pastoralism

Research, Policy and Practice

Table 1 Difference between three categories of livelihoods in Aba’ala district, Afar regional state, Ethiopia

Characteristics	Livelihood groups
Characteristics	Agrarian	Pastoral	Agro-pastoral
Housing	Hidmo or earthen roofed houses	Mobile houses made of shrubs and grasses t	Hidmo and modern iron sheet houses
Ethnicity	Tigray	Afar	Afar
Mobility	Sedentary	Seasonal or opportunistic mobility	Sedentary
Main livelihood	Farming	Herding	Herding with considerable income from farming
Dominant type of livestock	Cattle and sheep	Camel and goat	Sheep, cattle, goats and camel
Village structure	> 100 households residing together	10 to 30 households residing in one village	> 100 households residing in one village
Main type of food	Grains/bread and Injera	Milk, bread and meat	Grains/bread and injera
Selected villages	Hidmo, Aba’ala and Milazat	Asangola, Gelaeso, Kala	Arkudi, Aba’ala, Dinemeli