Community-based knowledge towards rangeland condition, climate change, and adaptation strategies: the case of Afar pastoralists

Ecological Processes

Table 2 Relationship between household characteristics and coping strategies on long rain season failure; N = 100, coefficient (SE)

Coping strategies	Labor force			Age			Livestock ownership (TLU)			Family size			Gender			Study area
Coping strategies	Coeff.	Wald	Sig	Coeff.	Wald	Sig	Coeff.	Wald	Sig	Coeff.	Wald	Sig	Coeff.	Wald	Sig	Coeff.	Wald	Sig
M + S	−1.86(0.73)	6.47	0.01*	0.78(0.26)	9.28	0.00**	0.13(0.07)	3.93	0.04*	−0.26(0.64)	0.16	0.69	8.99(22.20)	0.00	0.99	1.57(1.87)	0.71	0.40
M + SL	−1.66(0.78)	4.61	0.03*	0.31(0.21)	2.11	0.15	−0.00(0.06)	0.00	0.95	−0.48(0.73)	0.44	0.51	−18.7(1.03)	328.5	0.00**	1.04(1.77)	0.34	0.56
M + LF	−3.30(1.01)	10.74	0.00**	0.93(0.28)	10.98	0.00**	0.13(0.07)	3.43	0.06	0.21(0.85)	0.06	0.81	−7.62(877.6)	0.00	0.99	−0.87(2.53)	0.12	0.73
M + HS	−1.29(0.69)	3.47	0.06	0.14(0.19)	0.50	0.48	−0.01(0.05)	0.02	0.89	−0.35(0.68)	0.27	0.61	−17.83(0.00)	–	–	0.41(1.50)	0.07	0.79
M + CR	−2.12(1.01)	4.4	0.03*	0.55(0.29)	3.60	0.06	0.06(0.08)	0.63	0.43	0.15(0.03)	0.91	0.87	−1.13(0.00)	–	–	0.35(2.26)	0.02	0.88

Mc Fadden = 0.55; Cox and Snell = 0.81; Nagelkerke = 0.85. The dependent variable is coping strategy
M + S mobility + selling of animals, M + LF mobility + lopping and feeding, M + CR mobility + crop residue, M + HS mobility + herd splitting
*Significant at 5%
** = P< 0.01, *** = P< 0.001