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  1. Multiple Pressures on Rural Livelihoods:Economic Liberalisation and Climate Vulnerability in MozambiqueSiri Eriksen1, Julie Silva2, GileadMlay3, Roland Brouwer3, Albertina Alage41 CICERO, Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (siri.eriksen@cicero.uio.no)2 Departement of Geography, Rutgers University, US3 Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo4 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Maputo

  2. Background • Rural vulnerability, coping and complexity • Southern Africa project • Multiple pressures and rural livelihoods • Economic liberalisation in Mozambique • How is economic liberalisation shaping climate vulnerability? • Are local networks changing in response to climatic, liberalisation, and policy pressures?

  3. Case studies • Data collection in Matidze village, Mabalane District and Massavasse village, Chókwè District. • Alage study conducted in Chongoena

  4. Limpopo River Valley

  5. Effects of environmental change and liberalisation – A comparison of two villages

  6. There were several factors that were constraining people from responding to climatic variability. • Lack of access to information and technology as well as lack of money to invest in agriculture are key constraints to successful preparing, coping and recovering from climatic events in a regime of economic liberalisation. • Improved seed varieties or irrigation techniques are far beyond the reach of the large majority of farmers.

  7. Market integration refers to the extent to which people participation in trade, either by buying consumption goods from traders or a market, or by selling or bartering agricultural and other local goods to traders or in a market. • The extent to which goods are traded away from the local community to markets or buyers in distant towns or even abroad is an important aspect of market integration.

  8. Levels of market integration and investment can vary greatly between two areas of relatively close proximity (ca 160 km). • Physical infrastructure and market infrastructure are key factors affecting spatial differences in levels of market integration. • Farmer responses to climatic extremes (floods and droughts) differ between areas of low market integration and an area of higher market integration. • With market integration, local employment opportunities change, with opportunities arising, for example, in commercial agriculture and trade. • Market integration changes the social profile of vulnerability in terms of who has access to the new opportunities. • Traditional coping strategies, including social networks of mutual help, are in some cases weakened with the emergence of market-based coping strategies.

  9. The market in Chókwè: Trading is an important activity for women, especially during drought. Vegetables are also increasing in importance both for local sales and for export out of the district.

  10. traditional storage of maize

  11. Local inequalities: A traditional house next to a house of conventional material and satellite dish, built using remittances from South Africa.

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