Research, Policy and Practice
Table 10 Drought or climate change adaptation strategies employed by different livelihood categories and members of (values are mean ± standard deviation) households
Adaptation strategies | Livelihood categories | Sex of household head | Family members | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Agrarian (%) | Pastoral (%) | Agro-pastoral (%) | Female (%) | Male (%) | Daughters (%) | Husbands (%) | Sons (%) | Wives (%) | |
Collection of wild fruits | 14.2 | 39.4 | 27.7 | 27.2 | 30.2 | 2.8 | 45.3 | 11.3 | 48.0 |
Fetching and storing water | 52.7 | 50.9 | 54.8 | 50.7 | 53.8 | 72.4 | 29.1 | 24.8 | 88.0 |
Labor work | 31.1 | 31.4 | 27.7 | 31.9 | 29.1 | 1.9 | 64.2 | 27.7 | 18.7 |
Fetching livestock fodder | 33.1 | 45.4 | 35.5 | 40.3 | 38.2 | 9.6 | 67.6 | 37.6 | 32.7 |
Migration to other areas | 24.3 | 43.2 | 28.9 | 36.6 | 31.8 | 6.7 | 66.9 | 25.5 | 27.3 |
Storing meat | 18.2 | 31.0 | 27.7 | 25.5 | 27.2 | 7.7 | 16.9 | 3.5 | 70.7 |
Selling animals | 26.4 | 27.9 | 28.3 | 28.7 | 26.9 | 0.0 | 89.2 | 3.5 | 8.7 |
Purchasing grain | 39.9 | 44.1 | 50.0 | 47.2 | 43.1 | 2.9 | 75.0 | 3.5 | 82.7 |
Livestock raids | 8.1 | 15.3 | 15.1 | 17.6 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 41.2 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
Formal employment | 25.0 | 24.0 | 18.7 | 22.7 | 22.6 | 1.0 | 56.1 | 14.9 | 12.0 |
Herd splitting | 12.2 | 17.5 | 18.1 | 19.0 | 14.4 | 1.0 | 48.6 | 0.7 | 9.3 |
Child splitting | 7.4 | 12.2 | 8.4 | 11.6 | 8.6 | 1.0 | 17.6 | 0.0 | 17.3 |
Going to Fikur | 5.4 | 10.5 | 13.3 | 10.6 | 9.5 | 1.0 | 28.4 | 0.0 | 7.3 |
Borrowing money | 14.2 | 22.7 | 25.3 | 22.2 | 20.5 | 1.0 | 64.2 | 0.7 | 12.0 |