Climate Adaptation and Resilience: Rural Communities and Agro-Food Industries along Kilombero River Floodplains Landscape, Tanzania
A Research team at Sokoine University of Agriculture see to generate spatial explicit social, ecological, climatic, and land tenure/cover landscape data for the purpose of developing climate risks and opportunity models. The study will come up with landscape climate risk and vulnerability information with potential to develop early warning indicators, and financial opportunities. They use scenario and spatial modeling approach to develop framework strategies to inform policy decisions at the local landscape scale. In the future will aim to expand to similar systems (small holder/industry farming systems, sugarcane farming and restoration of riparian zones in Eastern/Southern Africa to benefit sustainability of small scale agro-food industries, on farm production (soil retention, resilience to floods and other climate extremes) and biodiversity (microclimate, habitat, connectivity of habitat), taking advantages of technological advancement and unfolding financial resources.
