Adapting to climate change
We provide services that support initiatives to invest in building community resilience to reduce vulnerability to climate change and climate variability.
Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability and change because of multiple stresses and low adaptive capacity. Although rural African households have developed several options to cope with current climate variability, such adaptations may not be sufficient for future changes of climate and as a result agricultural production is likely to be severely compromised.
In Malawi, nine out of ten rural households use a three-stone fire that is smoky and inefficient. Scarcity is increasing as people travel further to collect wood and begin to use less preferred wood species. Pressure on natural resources is mounting.
In collaboration with Irish Aid and Concern Universal, clioma is implementing a project aimed at increasing resilience through improved cooking practices. The project targets 32,000 households in Dedza and Ntcheu Dustricts in Central Malawi. Improved cook-stoves that are safer, quicker and cleaner are being promoted along with improved firewood and kitchen management.
The health effects of an improved cooking practices intevention is being researched in collaboration with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM).