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    Climate change is negatively impacting Malawi, where 90% of adults are subsistence farmers reliant on rainfall. Changes to rainfall patterns, intensity, and seasons have led to declining production of crops like coffee and fish catches. Water is becoming scarcer as rivers dry up sooner. Seasons are less predictable with colder periods shorter. Oxfam is working with communities to help them adapt skills like improved farming methods, irrigation, fish farming, and drought-resistant crops to live better lives despite climate change.

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    Climate change is negatively impacting Malawi, where 90% of adults are subsistence farmers reliant on rainfall. Changes to rainfall patterns, intensity, and seasons have led to declining production of crops like coffee and fish catches. Water is becoming scarcer as rivers dry up sooner. Seasons are less predictable with colder periods shorter. Oxfam is working with communities to help them adapt skills like improved farming methods, irrigation, fish farming, and drought-resistant crops to live better lives despite climate change.

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    Climate change is negatively impacting Malawi, where 90% of adults are subsistence farmers reliant on rainfall. Changes to rainfall patterns, intensity, and seasons have led to declining production of crops like coffee and fish catches. Water is becoming scarcer as rivers dry up sooner. Seasons are less predictable with colder periods shorter. Oxfam is working with communities to help them adapt skills like improved farming methods, irrigation, fish farming, and drought-resistant crops to live better lives despite climate change.

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    How climate

    change is affecting
    Malawi’s people

    Elvis Sukali
    Communications and Media Officer
    Oxfam Programme in Malawi
    Malawi
    Malawi

    Population:
    13,000,000

    90% of adults
    are subsistence
    farmers relying
    on rainfall
    Changes…

    …to rainfall patterns

    …to rainfall intensity

    …to hot and cold seasons


    Changing production
    patterns
    • Small-holder coffee production in
    Ntchenachena drop from 200 MT per
    year in the 1990s to 60 MT per year
    in the 2000s.
    • Commercial fish catches in Lake
    Malawi drop from 2000 MT in 1993 to
    200MT by 2003
    • Tobacco now being cultivated in
    areas previously considered not
    favourable
    Changes in rainfall
    “When I was a young
    person in the 1970s we
    used to experience very
    good rains but those
    days are gone. Now the
    rains are unpredictable,
    often heavy and
    destructive. The rains
    are also increasingly
    coming with violent
    winds that destroy
    crops and houses.”
    Laiford Msiska,
    Ntchenachena, Rumphi, Malawi
    Water is becoming scarce

    “Previously the
    rivers would run all
    year round but now
    when the rains
    stop the rivers dry
    up. We have to
    walk long distances
    [to fetch water].”

    Ester Chanache, Tsite Village,


    Traditional Authority Nsamala, Balaka
    District, Malawi
    Changing seasons…
    “In March and April
    when we were
    harvesting it was
    evident that the cold
    season was coming.
    From the end of April it
    was cold through to July.
    Now it’s only cold for a
    few days”.

    Julius Nkatachi, 70,


    Tsite Village,
    Balaka, Malawi
    Changing seasons…
    “There is also a rise in
    mosquitoes. We never
    used to be bothered by
    mosquitoes in June but
    These days mosquitoes bite
    us all year round and
    incidences of malaria have
    risen.”

    Caroline Malema, Traditional Authority Kyungu, Karonga,


    Malawi
    Community response
    Supporting
    Oxfam is working communities with
    with communities skills to improve
    to help them live their farming
    better lives in methods
    spite of the
    changing climate
    Promoting irrigation and
    fish-farming

    Vocational skills to Promoting drought


    diversify income resistant crops
    sources
    Miracles of improved
    farming

    In previous years Fred


    Kabambe, 28 of Thyolo, only
    harvested one bag of maize.
    Last year, he harvested eight
    bags - and it was not yet the
    rainy season.
    Estela Nojo,
    Malawi

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