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Empowering Malawian Farmers: Adapting to Climate Change Through Audio-Visual Tools

This project aims to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers in Salima District, Malawi, one of the world's poorest regions severely affected by climate change. Utilizing audio-visual tools, the initiative will strengthen farmers' capacity to adapt to extreme weather events such as droughts and floods. Key activities include stakeholder meetings, community sensitization, and participatory workshops to foster understanding of climate change. By involving the community in the development of relevant materials, the initiative seeks to effectively communicate weather predictions and empower vulnerable members to make informed adaptation choices.

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Empowering Malawian Farmers: Adapting to Climate Change Through Audio-Visual Tools

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  1. Background • Malawi is one of the poorest countries in world, threatened by extreme climate risks • Climate change is expected to make things worse. • The communication and use of weather and climate predictions is a crucial challenge for adaptation, particularly among illiterate farmers and other vulnerable community members.

  2. Context Droughts Climate risks Cyclones and flooding El Niño and Droughts Climate change

  3. Partners • Malawi Meteorological Services • Red Cross Climate change center • Malawi Red Cross Society • Malawi Institute of Management • International Institute of Applied Sciences (IIASA) 4

  4. Purpose and objectives Purpose • Use of audio-visual tools to strengthen the capacity of small holder farmers in salima district to adapt to droughts and floods Objectives • To accelerate and enhance training/learning in risk communication, to drought adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers • To learn from the communities on how they view and understand climate change and climate change adaptation and build on these understandings

  5. Activities • Stakeholder meetings • Community sensitization • Community assessments KAP study, vulnerability capacity assessment (VCA) and other social learning methods • Review and application of climate change scenarios • Procurement of audio visual tools • Trainings • Production of audio visual tools • Participatory workshops • Monitoring and evaluation • Documentation of the process

  6. participatory workshops using audio visual tools Learning and sharing with the community on impact of floods/droughts, what happens during these disasters, what are the causes and how to predict the disasters and plan on how to do certain things differently

  7. Expected progress: Community involvement and participation in collecting information for developing audio-visual tools and other materials store process Disseminate: 8

  8. Concerns and challenges • Designing and communicating weather forecasts to illiterate farmers • Difficult to convince donors to fund adaptation programs. It requires long term funding

  9. Lessons learnt • Its not easy to mobilize funding for adaptation programs

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