African landscapes are shaped by people and their livelihood systems which build on natural resources. For the past decades, farmers, herders and other resource users in Savannah environments experience changing biophysical conditions due to climate change, which they have to cope with. This panel intents to present rural people’s acute strategies to meet this challenge in a political ecology perspective. It will include case studies on four different natural resources.
Successful migrants, failing peasants. Rural-urban migration and
de-agrarianisation as adaptive strategies of the Sereer Ndut of Western Senegal to regional climate
change
Potentials and limitations of shallow groundwater
irrigation as an adaptive strategy in response to climate and environmental
changes in Northern Ghana
