1. Sokoine University of Agriculture Official Publications

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    Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change; implications for policy and practice in Tanzania.
    (Rangeland Society of Tanzania (RST), 2022) Sangeda Anthony Zozimus
    Climate change has significant socio economic impacts in Tanzania, in particular through floods, droughts and changes in rainfall pattern. Most literature on climate change impacts and vulnerability, report the idea that countries, economic sectors, social groups and individuals differ in their degree of vulnerability to climate change. This is partly true due to the fact that changes in temperature and precipitation occur unevenly and that impacts are unevenly distributed. Drivers of vulnerability inTanzania include both socio-economic (population and conflicts) and biophysical (infrastructure, water resources, soil erosion & land degradation, pest & diseases). It is assumed that many regions will be capable of adapting to climate change, but that poorer ones will face difficulties. It is therefore argued that the study of adaptation to climate change should begin with the study of social and economic vulnerability. In this case, vulnerability and adaptation are important issues in climate change debate. This is because always vulnerability is defined in terms of capacity to adapt, and capacity to respond to stress is a starting point for climate change impact analysis. Climate vulnerability and adaptation carry important lessons for assessing Tanzania’s preparedness for human induced climate change, and an understanding of climate variability provides important context for discussions in this study. Decreasing the vulnerability of socio-economic sectors and ecological systems to natural climate variability through a more informed choice of policies, practices and technologies will, in many cases, reduce the long-term vulnerability of these systems to climate change. Based on these issues, literature review was done to prepare this paper that provide an overview of vulnerability status and adaptation initiatives in order to inform policy and practice in the country.