Civil Society Network on Climate Change (CISONECC) says although Malawi is faring well in terms of adaptation interventions, what is lacking is up scaling it for many other farmers to adopt and put it into practice.
In the wake of climate change, CISONECC’s National Coordinator Julius Ng’oma has touted Agro ecology, a holistic approach that seeks to reconcile agriculture and local communities with natural processes for the common benefit of nature and livelihoods as beneficial to Malawi as an adaptation intervention.
He made the sentiments during a stakeholders’ engagement on the review of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) s and finalization of National Adaptation Plan (NAP) for Malawi in Dowa.
Ng’oma described the advancement of the two processes as very key to the country’s climate change management.
The network has supported the review of NDCs as well as the NAP by convening spaces for dialogues and consultations to showcase available evidence on the ground where farmers are practicing different types of the method that can be adopted at different levels across the country.
The goal is to put forward evidence to government and all other stakeholders that have the powers to promote agro ecology as an adaptation intervention so that together they can see how the practice can transform communities and in managing the impact of climate change.
According to the National Coordinator, Malawi is faring well in terms of adaptation interventions but lacks capacity to boost it for many other farmers to also be able to adopt and practice it.
“So there’s need for technical capacity for them to be able to upscale or do things better the way other countries are also doing it following good practices but also to put forward more financing that farmers can be able to upscale whatever they’re doing in a small setting.
“This will also require policy direction by the government if we’re to go flat out in terms of promoting these small-scale kind of adaptation interventions then the government needs to come in with more resources more technical capacities and even stronger policy direction to support these farmers to upscale whatever they’re doing.”
As part of a larger consortium with its partners Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Africa Climate Justice Alliance and Irish Aid through Trocaire; CISONECC has been leading efforts in advancing local led adaptation.
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