The rapid pace at which the climate change agenda is permeating wide-ranging arenas of established development practice and theory leaves little space and time for reflection on the implications this has for learning across agendas and literatures.
‘Adaptation’ is a term that is increasingly reserved to refer to processes that build the resilience of households, communities and sectors to changes in the climate. But ‘adaptation’ always has, and arguably always should, refer to more than just responses to climate change. Reflections here make the case for climate change enthusiasts to engage with a broader agenda concerning how to enable poor and vulnerable people to move out of poverty and vulnerability. We focus on livelihood diversification, as one possible adaptation strategy, and whether diversification as a climate adaptation option looks different to a poverty reduction option.
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This article comes from the IDS Bulletin 39.4 (2008) Avoiding Repetition: Time for CBA to Engage with the Livelihoods Literature?
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