Climate Smart Agriculture Strategies for Zambia – Analysis of Policies and Programmes
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Dear Friends & Colleagues Statistics from the Living Conditions Monitoring Survey of 2015 show that over 50% of the population live below the poverty line. This vulnerable population does not have sufficient capacity to cope with, or adapt to the impacts of extreme weather events. One of major contributors to extreme weather patterns has been deforestation. The country’s forest cover has been lost due to massive deforestations with losses in excess of 79,000 hectares of forest cover per annum (Integrated Land Use Assessment Report, 2016). To effectively cope with climate change, there is need to develop adaptation and mitigative...
