Resilience of communities
We investigate the resilience of communities to seasonality and climate variability, and how livelihood strategies contribute to food security and human wellbeing in the face of environmental hazards.
In order to understand the resilience of food and livelihood strategies in a variable climate and how they can be improved, interviews and focus group discussions are conducted in the same areas as the four LDSF sites. The participants come from different social groups and different household typologies. Two household surveys in two different seasons, including more than 900 households each time, were conducted in 2022 and 2023, respectively. Information about sociodemographic and livelihood characteristics, conflicts and crises, nutrition, health and anthropometry data was collected during two seasons, and put in context to climate variability.
In qualitative studies, we explored nutrition and diets, land use and livestock management, violent local conflicts and migration.
Results indicate patterns of vulnerability across households and communities, and pathways on how to improve resilience to external drivers of human wellbeing.
Meet Jeff, a nutritionist working in the project.
Objective 3 leaders
Barbara Schumann, Senior Lecturer
Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnaeus University
barbara.schumann@lnu.se, +46480446279
Alice Turinawe, Dr., Lecturer
Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics, Makerere University, Uganda
aturinawe@caes.mak.ac.ug, aaturinawe@gmail.com, +256 782 324841