Elder Moonga: Climate change adaptive capacities in the traditional livestock system of southern Africa based on indigenous knowledge
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Elder Moonga: Climate change adaptive capacities in the traditional livestock system of southern Africa based on indigenous knowledge
- 1. Climate Change Adaptive Capacities in the Traditional Livestock System of Southern Africa based on Indigenous Knowledge AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium, Addis Ababa, 9th to 11th March 2011 Dr. Elder Moonga NISIR/SANBio Livestock Node, PB 49, Chilanga-Lusaka, Zambia Email: eldmoo@yahoo.com; eldmoonga@hotmail.com
- 3. Over 4 decades growth in the livestock sector has been only 2%
- 4. About 68% of human population is wholly or partially dependent on livestock
- 5. More than 70% of livestock population is under the rural traditional farming sector
- 8. Inadequate national and regional policies
- 10. Livestock diseases and respective vectors
- 17. dip mismanagement by sub-optimal concentrations and reduced dipping frequency
- 18. lack of product quality control
- 19. Reduced animal resistance to ticks and pathogens due to cross-breeds
- 20. Much rapid break down of chemical compounds (active ingredients)?
- 22. Meteorological data - rainfall
- 23. Meteorological data - rainfall The mean difference in seasonal rainfall for the study district, Mumbwa between the periods 1940 to 1970 and 1971 to 2005 is 104 mm The rainfall has been reducing to a present (2000 to 2010), mean seasonal rainfall of 714.0 mm.
- 24. Meteorological data - temperature Duncan's Multiple Range Test for the annual increase in mean temperature (oC/year) for the three Agro-Ecological Zones of Zambia Means with the same letter are not significantly different at Alpha = 0.05, df= 17, MSE = 0.000098
- 26. 0.032oC per year or 0.32oC per decade (± 1.0˚C)
- 28. Communities utilize traditional plant remedies for various veterinary problemsexamples : tick control; expelling retained placenta/dystocia management/abortion management; New Castle disease treatment; Corridor disease treatment; Anthrax treatment; biting flies repellent ; Pink Eye treatmentwounds healing; blood diarrhoea treatment; Snake bite management; helminths control; fructure repairs Harmonization of IK & SK by scientific validation
- 32. is very usefulinsoil enrichment through nitrogen fixation.