Climate change and variability is one of the global development challenges which is expected to have wide‐ranging impacts such as rising sea levels, increasing severity of droughts and floods,

Climate change and variability is one of the global development challenges which is expected to have wide‐ranging impacts such as rising sea levels, increasing severity of droughts and floods,

displacement of huge populations, variability in precipitation, changes in growing seasons, etc

Call for abstracts: Impact of Climate Change and Variability on Pastoralist Women in sub‐Saharan Africa

An estimated 50 million pastoralists live in sub‐Saharan Africa inhabiting arid and semi‐arid
regions

The Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) appreciates the need to comprehensively understand the gender dimensions of climate change and variability among pastoral societies by assessing and examining:

• gender‐related risks, vulnerabilities and opportunities associated with climate change and variability on pastoralist communities;
• gender differentiated impacts of climate change and variability on pastoral communities;
• level of awareness of pastoralist communities on the occurrence, severity, dynamics and impacts of climate change and variability on pastoral women;
• pastoralist women’s historical, traditional and new coping and adaptation mechanisms to climate change and variability and the dynamics;
• success stories and challenges of policies, programs and projects that are designed by national governments to address the negative impacts of climate change and variability on pastoral communities especially women; and
• the role of pastoral women in planning and decision‐making on issues of climate change and variability at community and national levels.

OSSREA cordially invites interested researchers to conduct studies on the above and related issues in any of the countries in eastern and southern Africa.

Incentives for authors:
On acceptance of the final draft article, OSSREA will pay the authors a lumpsum of US$ 5000 (five thousand). The accepted article will be edited and published as a chapter in a book.

Deadlines:
Abstracts should be submitted to OSSREA by e‐mail before 22nd August 2011.

See downloads for eligibility criteria and submission guidelines

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