Coordinated, confident, locally owned: A new era for evidence-driven climate adaptation in Africa
The Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas is not the solution to Africa’s climate challenges, but it is changing how solutions are identified, financed, and implemented. It shows what becomes possible when data is open, institutions are empowered, and science is made truly usable.
- climate change
- gender
Coordinated, confident, locally owned: A new era for evidence-driven climate adaptation in Africa
The Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas is not the solution to Africa’s climate challenges, but it is changing how solutions are identified, financed, and implemented. It shows what becomes possible when data is open, institutions are empowered, and science is made truly usable.
One morning in 2023 in the Mozambican capital of Maputo, technical advisors were diligently working on the country’s Climate-Smart Agriculture Guidelines and annual National Adaptation Plan. But there was one major problem: These advisors needed reliable projections to identify where farmers faced the greatest exposure to drought and heat stress. The goal was to pinpoint districts where irrigation or organic fertilization would deliver the biggest productivity gains.
For that, they needed hazard projections and indicators of exposure. They needed layered datasets with agriculture and gender statistics.