Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation in Improving Livelihood of Rural Community: A Case Study of Community Forest Pemba Project (Kokota ISLET).

Climate change is a global problem with its impacts on environment, health of human, food security, economic activities, natural resources and physical infrastructures. This study was carried out to assess the climate change adaptation in improving the livelihood of the rural community at Kokota islet. The Community Forest Pemba project has financed project that implemented adaptation options at the community level in order to enhance the resilience of those communities to climate change. Quantitative method was used in gathering information. Types of data collected were primary and secondary. The Multinomial Logit regression was used to determine the factors affecting the choice of adaptation options. The climate change impacts in the study area were low yields of crops, diseases in plants, diseases in human, decreased fish catch and water scarcity. The adaptation options implemented were tree planting, rainwater harvesting, solar energy, fuel efficient cooking stoves and agro-forestry. The results from the multinomial logit regression model revealed that age of household heads, sex, education level, number of year lived in the area, lack of knowledge and information on climate change adaptation options, lack of government support on the means of adaptation and access to credit influencing the households’ choice of adaptation options. The findings of this study have revealed that there is a need to improve accessibility of climate change information in the study area and other areas and accessibility to financial system which will enhance capacity of resilience to climate change adverse effects. The government should strengthen relationship between extension officers and smallholder farmers for betterment of climate change adaptation. Keywords: Livelihood, Adaptation and Climate chang