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Climate change and Rural Livelihoods in Northern Ethiopia

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Current pressures & climate <strong>change</strong> threats to the ecosystem<br />

Basel<strong>in</strong>e Pressures<br />

• L<strong>and</strong>lessness<br />

• M<strong>in</strong>uscule plots<br />

• Resource degradation<br />

<strong>Climate</strong> Change Pressures<br />

•Increas<strong>in</strong>g temperature (impacts on<br />

soil moisture, crop growth,<br />

vegetation type, water stress)<br />

•Increas<strong>in</strong>g erosion (drought/flood)<br />

•Siltation<br />

•Flood-<strong>in</strong>deced l<strong>and</strong>slide<br />

•Inequitable access to<br />

l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> water resources<br />

•Cyclical drought/frost<br />

•Frost/hailstorms<br />

•L<strong>and</strong>slides<br />

•Lack of early warn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

systems<br />

•Reduced water quality & availability<br />

(drought/flood/pollution)<br />

•Chang<strong>in</strong>g seasonal water<br />

distribution<br />

•Siltation, sal<strong>in</strong>ization<br />

•Intensify<strong>in</strong>g drought/hail<br />

•Severe flood/drought<br />

•Novel disasters (diseases, pests…)

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