This brief highlights how extreme heat, drought, and flooding are affecting agricultural livelihoods in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement. It documents reduced crop yields, livestock losses, and food insecurity, alongside community coping strategies and key gaps in climate-resilient support.
Key messages from the publication include:
- A large majority of refugees in Nyumanzi/ Dzaipi/Arinyapi (82%) have lived there for nine to ten years or more, with livelihood largely dependent on climate sensitive activities: 96% engaged in crop farming, 57% engaged in animal husbandry.
- Climate related hazards - especially extreme heat, droughts and floods - are increasingly affecting livelihoods in Nyumanzi settlement and its surrounding areas, leading to reduced crop yields, livestock losses, disrupted fishing activities and higher food prices.
- Community responses to these climate impacts include crop diversification, water harvesting, adjusting work hours and informal support networks. However, limited access to timely climate information, inputs, and financial resources continues to constrain effective adaptation strategies.