Abstract Development programs and policies can influence smallholder producers' abilities
to adapt to climate change. However, gaps remain in understanding how households' …

Climate change and variability threaten the sustainability of agricultural and food production,
especially in agrarian communities. In Southern Africa, rainfall is expected to decline by …

Deltas worldwide have been experiencing pressures and challenges exacerbated by
climate change. An explicit focus on deltas is lacking in various bodies of literature, although …

Adaptive management and related fields have theorized new governance strategies that
embrace complexity and are able to respond effectively to changing and unpredictable …

ABSTRACT The Okavango Delta in Botswana hosts abundant wildlife and a human
population with diverse livelihoods. Representing a heterogeneous landscape nuanced by …

The ability of people to respond successfully to environmental variability is determined by
their existing vulnerabilities and social‐ecological relationships. At the same time, dominant …

Botswana is a semi-arid, middle-income African country that imports 90 percent of its food.
Despite its relative prosperity, Botswana also suffers from one of the highest measures of …

Elephants frequently raid crops within their ranges in Africa and Asia. These raids can
greatly impact agricultural productivity and food security for farmers. Therefore, there is a …

Smallholders remain an important part of human-environment research, particularly in
cultural and political ecology, peasant and development studies, and increasingly in land …

Climate change will present new challenges for transboundary governance of international
river basins, many of which will experience increasing levels of environmental variability in …