From the photostories the community’s main vulnerabilities are determined and discussed. The five photo-stories from Namibia emphasise challenges such as increased flooding and shifts in the rainy seasons, which negatively affect the community's dependency on maize production. Human-wildlife conflict, such as elephant crop raids, are also noted as a major barrier to building adaptive capacity and thereby contibute to the climate change vulnerability of the community. Although community conservancies are realised as a good means of facilitating an alternative income and enhancing the communities’ adaptive capacity in many cases these fail to effectively achieve their objectives.

In Tanzania the three photostories identified increased intensity and frequency of droughts in the region as a major vulnerability that severely affect the communities’ livelihoods. Furthermore, insecurity of land tenures and land rights act as major barriers to building resilience to climate change. The Tanzanian photostories also emphasise the existing local strategies to climate change and introduce examples on how the use of land management plans can secure land tenures and help the communities adapt to the changes in the climate. The Terrat Conservation Easement is noted as a progressive strategy for land management with the dual goal of preserving pastures for the dry seasons and actiating an additional income from tourism.

In Kenya the seven photostories highlight the recent inter-tribal tensions in line with more intense and frequent droughts over the last few years, as well as insecure land rights as the communities’ main vulnerabilities. Adaptation strategies aimed at preserving the natural environment, allowing for forest regeneration and pasture conservation were noted, as were income diversification options, including keeping beehives, community tourism activities and pro-active livestock management.