Climate change and rural livelihoods in Southern Africa: An agenda for policy-oriented research
Abstract
This report is the outcome of an extensive review of the
literature and the debates on climate change and landbased
livelihoods in Southern Africa.
In the context of the converging climate and food crises,
it provides an overview of the politics of climate change,
its impacts, and responses in Southern Africa, and sketches
the outlines of PLAAS’s research agenda on the intersections
of climate change, agrarian change and rural
livelihoods. As such, it is an open-ended document, intended
to identify and formulate questions, not to present
answers. The purpose of the report is to set out in
broad terms the way in which seek to connect our work
on agrarian change and rural livelihoods to the questions
raised by the climate crisis currently facing our societies.