Pastoralist Coping Strategies Study
Following pastoralist households across dry seasons to learn which coping strategies hold under repeated climate stress — and which do not.
When the rains fail, pastoralist households make hard choices — selling livestock, moving further, pulling children from school. This study follows those choices across successive dry seasons to understand which strategies build resilience and which trade tomorrow for today.
The evidence is meant to sharpen how support is targeted, so it reinforces the strategies that hold.
Objectives
- 01Document coping strategies across repeated climate stress.
- 02Distinguish protective adaptation from harmful coping.
- 03Inform better-targeted resilience support.
Our approach
A longitudinal design tracks households in three pastoralist counties across dry seasons, pairing quantitative measures with community insight to see how coping evolves under pressure.
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