Indigenous people are often considered victims of climate change impact rather than agents
of adaptation. Emerging studies in Africa have shifted the attention to indigenous knowledge …

The continued significant impacts of disasters from natural hazards raise questions
regarding the epistemic commensurability of measures recommended to achieve substantial …

Flooding continues to ravage communities and leave societies driven by quest towards a
more likely solution to flood threats. The need to accommodate both the provision of …

The integration of indigenous knowledge into understanding disasters from natural hazards
is hitherto hampered by the limited conceptualization of the process that shapes indigenous …

Mountain areas are highly exposed to flood risks. The latter are increasing in the context of
climate change, urbanization, and land use changes. Non-structural approaches such as …

The Bakonjo have long practiced an agroforestry system of cultivation on the Ugandan
slopes of the Rwenzori Mountain range. All terrain above 1600–2200 m has been strictly …

Effective disaster risk reduction is often hampered by a general scarcity of reliable data
collected on disastrous events, particularly in the Global South. Novel approaches are …

Agroecological approaches can provide context-specific and sustainable solutions to issues
confronting farming communities, by enabling consorting of the socioeconomic and …

The added value of indigenous practices for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasingly
stressed by scholars. Yet this fails to translate into practical application as these scholars …

Abstract Smallholder agriculture in Northwestern Ghana continues to suffer the increasing
threats of climate change and variability. The extant literature has argued that climate-smart …