Resilience of female headed farming households in times of drought - Rurad development professionals need to understand the concept & explore more about it

In this study resilience is defined as a capability which people apply in order to cope with the recurrent drought situation or in times of hardiship as a form of indigenous or exogenous knowledge which can directly contribute to household's capabilities and sustainable lovelihoods. The indigenous knowledge which can potentially contribute to increase household's adaptive capacity is an important contributing factor in building household's resilience even in the absence of external support. However, in building up the resilience of small-scale farming households coherent integration of indigenous knowledge with new source of knowledge is an important entry point. To open up this entry point, protection and documentation of indigenous knowledge of different households and access to to new knowledge through responsible organization is compulsory.

About the author

Author of Resilience of female headed farming households in tmes of drought, Haregu Mohammedadem is a rural development professional with long standing experience on extension work.Haregu has BA degree in economics from Mekelle University & MSc in Rural Development and Communication from Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences Wageningen.

Product details

• Authors: Hareg Mohammedadem, Haregu Mohammedadem, Loes Witteveen
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2012
• EAN: 9783847305972
• ISBN: 978-3-8473-0597-2
• No. of pages: 76
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day