Ecosystem-based Adaptation: a buffer for pastoralists?

Pastoralists have indigenous ways of adapting to droughts, but climate change is now bringing new challenges that may render these indigenous adaptation strategies inadequate. The coping strategies of pastoralists focus primarily on livestock, but these communities also derive benefits from other ecosystem services. Thus, arises an interest in the potential for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) - the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation strategy to the impacts of climate change.