Special Issue "Beyond Beneficiaries: Conflict and Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in African Drylands"
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2018) | Viewed by 7361
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; adaptation; African drylands; pastoralism; agricultural development; conflict

Interests: land governance; migration; livelihood analysis; impact assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: natural resource conflict; drylands; land use change; land/forest tenure; leadership; Kenya; land use frontiers; land-based investments; natural resource governance; Mozambique
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is born from research conducted as part of a four-year research project on the linkages between adaptation interventions in African drylands on the one hand, and new dynamics of conflict and/or cooperation on the other. The rise of climate change adaptation, as a fundamental development thematic, especially in African drylands, has resulted in new financial flows into programming seeking to strengthen community resilience to climatic change and variability. This includes new dry-season farming initiatives, investments in modern irrigation and storage infrastructure, biodiversity and the introduction of climate smart crop and seed varieties, to name but a few. Invariably, these types of interventions target sedentary farmers, despite the fact that African drylands are characterized by multi-livelihood landscapes, and scarce natural resources form the basis of, not only farming, but also pastoralism, hunting, foraging and fishing livelihoods. In targeting one group of beneficiaries, adaptation interventions work to dedicate natural resources to supporting crop-based livelihoods, often ignoring other groups, equally dependent upon those natural resources. This Special Issue invites contributions that focus on how, in African dryland areas, emerging adaptation regimes impact beyond beneficiary groups, creating new relations in the governance of contested natural resources, and the implications for conflict and/or cooperation.
Prof. Dr. Annelies Zoomers
Dr. Sebastiaan Soeters
Dr. Angela Kronenburg García
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Adaptation interventions
- conflict
- cooperation
- African drylands