Linking Population, Fertility and Family Planning with Adaptation to Climate Change: Views from Ethiopia
Population Action International
| The effects of global climate change are being felt disproportionately in the world’s poorest countries, where the people are the least able to cope. As climate change adaption strategies are gaining international attention, it is important to show how people are coping with the effects of climate change, how they could become more resilient to these effects and how people and communities can adapt to changes in climate.
PAI conducted this case study in collaboration with the Miz-Hsab Research Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Joint Global Change Research Institute. Using qualitative methods, the authors explored how Ethiopian communities react to and cope with climate variation, which groups are the most vulnerable, what resources communities need to adapt to climate change and the role of family planning and reproductive health in increasing resilience to climate change impacts. This study is one of the first to explore the linkages of population, fertility and family size to aspects of vulnerability and resilience to climate change.
- Regions/Countries:
- Global |
- Africa, North |
- Algeria |
- Ethiopia
Toolkit last updated: 23 May 2012
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