Migration as an adaptive strategy to climate variability: a study of the Tonga-speaking people of Southern Zambia

The paper used empirical data from 30 households of Tonga migrants from Southern Province of Zambia to examine how perceived changes in climatic conditions such as drought and occasional flooding impacted their livelihood systems as well as their general well-being and therefore acted as triggers for their movement to Central Province.

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Simatele, Danny
 Simatele, Munacinga
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Simatele, D. and M. Simatele. 2015. Migration as an adaptive strategy to climate variability: a study of the Tonga-speaking people of Southern Zambia. Disasters 39(4): 762-781.

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2015
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