Adaptation to Climate-Change in Semi-Arid Environments – Experience and Lessons from Mozambique

This activity report gives an account of the Government of Mozambique/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) led interventions on strengthening smallholder agriculture, community-based natural resources management, and livelihood diversification in the face of current and future climate-related stresses. It provides the rationale behind each of the activities, innovations and successes, but also barriers and challenges encountered over the three-year project period. The lessons learned are critically analysed, and the opportunities for replication and scaling-up, and for filling in some of the gaps during follow-up interventions, explored.