Group | Impacts | Adaptation strategies | Factors preventing the adoption of the alternative strategy |
---|---|---|---|
Strong winds | |||
Men and women | Fire spreading into homes | Call firefighters | Remoteness of the fire brigade |
Spread of diseases | Build brick houses with slabs | Lack of means | |
Habitat destruction (removal of roofs) | Reforestation | Inadequate awareness on the use of plant produced | |
Women | Infertile land | Fertilizers Promotion of FMNR | Insufficient financial resources and lack of partners Lack of resource management rules |
Men | Wind erosion | Windbreaks | None |
Flood | |||
Men | Loss of animal life | Build brick shelters | Lack of means |
Human and animal health | Use modern medicine/construction of a health post | Lack of partners | |
Women | Destruction of crops | None | None |
Destruction of yields | None | None | |
Men and women | Destruction of huts | Build brick houses | Lack of means |
Drought | |||
Men | Poor harvest | Establish food stocks | Bad rainy season |
Resurgence of diseases | Strengthen mutual health insurance | Financial resources | |
Decline in animal productivity | Build fodder reserves | Lack of means | |
Women | Decline in market gardening productivity | Improved watering means (pump, installing solar panel) | Lack of financial partners |