Study: Migrating Can Help Mitigate Climate Change
When higher temperatures and dry spells make the lives of farmers a daily struggle, many choose to move away from their homeland and try their luck elsewhere.
It’s a painful choice, and one that leaves families and entire communities culturally displaced, altering their way of life irreparably.
But sometimes, migration doesn’t have to be the only alternative to adaptation – it can complement it.
That is the surprising finding of a team of researchers who set out to investigate the lifestyles of five hundred agro-pastoralists in different parts of Samburu county in Kenya, a semi-arid region increasingly affected by climate change.
Edward Harris/Africa Progress Panel