Malawi heatwaves threaten tea yields and livelihoods
The recent heatwave in Malawi has led to consecutive days with very high temperatures. This is exactly the scenario that tea growers fear. The CI4Tea project aims to support tea farmers to adapt.
Footsteps Africa
Footsteps Africa is a local NGO in Malawi, established in 2015. We are based in Blantyre.
Revenue-Generating Opportunities Through Tailored Weather Information Products
This continental-scale market assessment investigated how thriving commercial weather markets could be catalysed in the 11 African countries supported by the CIRDA programme.
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Effective Management in Cities
Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Effective Management in Cities
Selecting ecosystem service models for decision-making
This guide by the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme helps readers to assess how ecosystem service models could support policy-making in their countries.
Valuing the Benefits, Costs and Impacts of EbA Measures
This sourcebook assists in building awareness, knowledge and capacity about why, how and in which contexts EbA valuation can be used to inform, guide and influence adaptation decision-making.
Climate Risk and Vulnerability: A Handbook for Southern Africa (2nd Edition)
An updated version of the popular handbook outlining projected climate change, sectoral impacts and responses (adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and accessing climate finance) in southern Africa
Future Climate Projections for Malawi
This brief provides an overview of future climate change in Malawi, using results from the latest available climate model simulations based on 34 global climate models (CMIP-5) used by the IPCC.
Identifying climate services needs for national planning: insights from Malawi
This article identifies the opportunities and barriers to the use of climate services for national planning in Malawi.
Emerging Evidence on Climate Change and Health in Africa
This report presents evidence on the effects of climate change on the health sector in Africa, including threats to health and development investments, and opportunities to achieve health targets.
Courting complexity in climate services: Lessons from Participatory Scenario Planning
The Participatory Scenario Planning approach for seasonal decision-making at the local level has been adopted in 6 African countries and in SE Asia. This article discusses what makes it successful.
Helping decision-makers make sense of climate information
This Future Climate For Africa report presents an overview of climate trends across regions of Africa and a series of climate factsheets that are tailored for specific sub-regions and countries.
The SEI Initiative on Climate Services
This initiative is developing and testing a new framework - Tandem - for the improved co-design, use and interpretation of climate services.
Self Help Africa
Self Help Africa is a leading international development charity with an expertise in small-scale farming and growing family-farm businesses.
FCFA - Uncertainty reduction in models for understanding development applications
The UMFULA project (meaning ‘river’ in Zulu) aims to support decision-making through providing new and more reliable information about climate processes and extremes in Central and Southern Africa.
Southern African Development Community
The Southern African Development Coordinating Conference (SADCC), established on 1 April 1980 was the precursor of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).
Institute of Southern African Studies
The Institute  of Southern African Studies, based at the National University of Lesotho, serves as one of the principal research centres for identifying, initiating, promoting, and coordina
COMPENDIUM OF LESSONS LEARNED FROM ARCC CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS
Before considering how to adapt to climate change, it is first necessary to understand the extent to which natural and human systems will be affected by various change...
Synthesis report: FCFA pilot phase
This report provides initial research into the use of long-term (5-40 year) climate information in Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia and the coastal cities of Accra, Ghana and Maputo, Mozambique.
FCFA Pilot: Malawi
There is growing interest about how climate information can be used to better inform decision-making across a range of sectors and socio-political and environmental settings. To...
Gender and Climate Change Adaptation in Agrarian Settings
The vast majority of work on gender and climate change adaptation treats gender as a simple either/or binary with men on one side and women on the other. This report, however, shows that...
Oxfam Southern Africa Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (Malawi)
People digging sand from a river in Malawi to earn an income
Project descriptionSEI's work is informing Oxfam's regional strategy for mainstreaming climate...
Audiovisual Tools for Community-Based Adaptation in Malawi
The aim of this project was to strengthen the capacity for climate adaptation in rural Malawi, particularly among smallholder farmers.
World Agroforestry Centre
The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is a CGIAR Consortium Research Center.
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