https://ir.zou.ac.zw/files/original/908082f68bf80e6d0031c0f61d72db64.pdf 9418aac35631aa3169e3665d2b2ece3c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Staff Publications Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A RESOLUTION FRAMEWORK FOR THE PROBLEM OF DROUGHT IN BULILIMA DISTRICT IN MATABELELAND SOUTH PROVINCE OF ZIMBABWE Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PIOS NCUBE Description An account of the resource Faced with recurrent droughts and other extreme weather events, subsistence farming communities found in arid and semi-arid regions of the world have continuously utilized inherent experiences and alternative livelihood sources to cope with adverse effects of an ever changing climate. Clearly, there are two extreme ends in this narrative, with one extreme end being climate change that has amplified the impact of extreme weather events such as drought and the other extreme being the resilience of communities that are impacted by such weather phenomena. Over the years, subsistence farmers have utilized their life experiences and learning to cope with adverse effects of weather related extremes, yet such capabilities have been overlooked in scientific research, policy and practice. There is a tendency to treat subsistence farmers, who mostly are found in arid and semi-arid regions of the world; as helpless victims of drought and other weather extremes, as passive recipients of knowledge. Such farmers have over the years contributed to world knowledge through their experiential learning by doing and they have perfected collaborative ways of building resilience to shocks. More than 80% of their knowledge comes from daily experiences, insights and intuitions that are then condensed into a complete world view capacities based resilience. These communities have existed in such locations and regions without getting extinct. Subsistence farmers in rural Zimbabwe in Bulilima district of Matabeleland South are constantly at risk of drought and have lived with the recurrent phenomenon for many decades; suffered food insecurity, livelihoods destruction, disrupted well-being because they are dependent on rain-fed agriculture, yet they continue to live and exist in the same locations. This study employed a Case Study method embedded in interpretivist paradigm and utilized open ended household questionnaires and interview guide to generate data. Data generation was guided by the principle of data saturation and data was analysed using emerging themes on excel, human stories and through the use of NVivo. The study revealed that participants were not passive victims of drought, as demonstrated by various alternative livelihoods that they adopted in coping with the phenomenon. Some of the adaptive coping strategies adopted by participants were; reduced meals per day, reliance on casual labour, dependence on remittances, and to some extent participants utilized their own production. Markets and wild fruits (wild foods gathering) also played a major role. Participants were enterprising and innovative, and employed their indigenous knowledge systems to predict weather patterns in the absence of conventional modern weather predictions. The local communities adopted alternative livelihoods and income sources in order to cope with drought Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available ZIMBABWE OPEN UNIVERSITY Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017 Adaptation Agriculture Capacity Climate change coping mechanisms Disaster Risk Food insecurity Hazard management Resilience Shocks Vulnerability