In this paper, we examine the vulnerability and adaptability of women along the southern slopes of the Rumpi
Hills forest, Ndian Division of Cameroon. We used primary weather data and household livelihood surveys, to identify a broad
range of climate variability that combine to create different adaptation and household livelihood outcomes. We used this
information to explore the ways in which livelihoods have changed and adapted over a 38 year period (1976-2014), as well as
considered the factors that have contributed to these outcomes. Using this approach, we assessed 858 women across six
villages, our results showed decreasing amounts of rainfall, receding forests, increasing temperatures and water scarcity, and
increasing costs of living. We also found that, despite adjusting sowing dates, adopting petty trading and changing cropping
patterns, climate variability affects their livelihood strategies.