Pastoralism, as a nature-based economy, is vulnerable to climate change as natural resources such as water and pasture are highly impacted by the current invariability and unpredictability of rainfall seasons. Vulnerability further increases due to inadequate weather information services to pastoralist communities such as weather forecasts that could lead to the preparation of early warning systems to cope with the changing climate. Among its impacts is increased livestock deaths resulting in the loss of pastoralist livelihoods. With the spread of COVID-19, dependents of pastoralism - pastoralists became more vulnerable. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the restricted mobility of people and their livestock used as a climate change coping strategy. It also restricted the assembly of people in various places including at marketplaces where pastoralist sell their livestock, and at town halls/village centers where communities gather for political and social events. As a result, pastoralist communities are socially, politically, and economically impacted. Nevertheless, such communities were not static, as they have developed coping strategies to cope with climate change challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper, therefore, analyzes existing pastoralists coping strategies to address climate change in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper is a product of data collected between March 2021 and March 2023 in two study areas in Tanzania. The Enguserosambu Ward in the Ngorongoro district and the Elerai village in the Kilindi district.
