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info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess Community based Adaptation (CBA) as a source of conflict in strengthening local adaptive capacity and resilience in semi-arid regions in sub-Saharan Africa Zoomers, E.B. Soeters, S.R. climate change adaptation community-based adaptation exclusion conflicts resilience social capital Kenya Ghana Burkina SDG 13 - Climate Action This article, based on fieldwork in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Kenya, provides an overview of different types of climate change adaptation interventions that are currently being implemented to enhance local community’s adaptive capacity and resilience. We show that CBA interventions, whilst measurably successful from the interventionist perspective, are often structured to cause new scarcities, competing claims and ultimately, various forms and intensities of conflict. We conclude that, instead of targeting “communities” or other groups of “beneficiaries”, the inter-connectedness of multiple (and at times competing) social groups (men and women, the elderly and youth, hunters, loggers, pastoralists and sedentary crop farmers etc.) in relation to the use and distribution of natural resources should be the point of departure for strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity. Social Urban Transitions Social Urban Transitions 2017-11 Article application/pdf https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/361901 Journal of geoscience and environmental protection 5(11), 174-193 (2017) en 2327-4336