Environment Pollution and Climate Change
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Building Livelihood Resilience Capacities of Pastoral Households towards Drought Disaster: The Case of Borana Zone of Southern Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Received Date: Sep 21, 2023 / Published Date: Mar 15, 2025

Citation: Dinsa AB, Wakjira FS, Demmisie ET, Negash TT (2025) Building Livelihood Resilience Capacities of Pastoral Households towards Drought Disaster: The Case of Borana Zone of Southern Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Environ Pollut Climate Change 9: 429

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Resilience is becoming a commonly driver of multifaceted catch-all agenda in all the sustainability and humanity sciences; in science policy interphase and in the formulation and implementation of development polices/program across all level, especially, in response to climate change. Objective of this study was to analyze the livelihood resilience capacity of the Borana pastoralists of Southern Oromia, Ethiopia towards drought of 2016. Data were collected from 290 households of Bulbuli villages/Gololcha of Dirree district and Dambi villages/Dikale of Yabello district in 2020. In the process, districts were purposely selected while villages/Gandas were selected through lottery methods of sampling techniques. In this study, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method was used to analyze the data in RStudio tools/software. Unlike other many resilience studies; this study was categorized drought resilience in to the resilience process/drought preparedness practices and resilience outcome/resource endowment/ absorptive capacities of the household in all the data collection process and analysis. The findings of this study showed that use of indigenous weather knowledge, establishment and maintenance of water sources, rangeland management, livestock mobility and social support are among the drought resilience determinant practices that are employed by the Borana pastoral households’. Similarly, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, water and rangeland resources productivity were among the very important asset/absorptive capacity endowed by the pastoral households’. The values of the PCA factor loadings revealed that cattle and sheep were less resilient while goats, camels and rangeland productivity were more resilient to 2016 drought. Hence, drought resilience should be derived with safe innovative SMART preparedness/response and livelihood diversification to ensure productivity and sustainability of pastoral livelihoods.

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