Uneven resilience and everyday adaptation: making Rwanda's green revolution ‘climate smart’

Figures & data

Figure 1. Map of Nyamagabe (study region) in Rwanda.

Figure 2. Rendition of a spatially and temporally heterogeneous agroecology in twentieth century Rwanda. Figure from Ford (1990).

Table 1. Relative asset classes and correlating characteristics of survey respondent households. Each grouping of household was found to be significantly different (p < .01) from the others in terms of the factors in the leftmost column. Note that these data are based on participant responses to survey questions.

	Household asset class relative to other study participants				Sig
	Lowest 25 percent	Below average	Above average	Highest 10 percent
Number of households	117	137	128	49	0.000
Female headed households (%)	45.8%	29.2%	20.8%	4.2%	0.000
Mean landholding (ha)	0.12	0.30	0.65	1.54	0.000
Median landholding (ha)	0.1	0.25	0.56	1.46	0.000
Mean number of cows owned	0.09	0.31	0.64	1.29	0.000
Mean pigs, goats, and sheep owned	0.52	0.8	1.24	2.1	0.000
Total annual income (USD)	$171	$170	$278	$536	0.000
Percent of income from farm labor	94%	75%	59%	42%	0.000
Mean age of household head (years)	44	49	50	50	0.010
Mean number of people in household	3.85	4.68	5.22	6.55	0.000

Ford, Robert E. 1990. “The Dynamics of Human-Environment Interactions in the Tropical Montane Agrosystems of Rwanda: Implications for Economic Development and Environmental Stability.” Mountain Research and Development 10 (1): 43–63.

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