{"id":158,"date":"2018-04-28T13:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/?p=158"},"modified":"2018-04-28T13:34:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T13:34:50","slug":"climate-smart-agriculture-quick-facts-about-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/2018\/04\/28\/climate-smart-agriculture-quick-facts-about-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Smart Agriculture; quick facts about Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a weekend here in Galway and I am out basking in the sun with the courage of reflecting through the past week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-image-160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20161104_14_11_36_Pro-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Dry water storage dams\" width=\"378\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20161104_14_11_36_Pro-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20161104_14_11_36_Pro-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20161104_14_11_36_Pro-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2018\/04\/WP_20161104_14_11_36_Pro-624x352.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drying of water storage dams has become more common with frequent droughts in Malawi. Photo Source: Decolius Kalumo Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was a tight week again, however, a lot of positives drawn. It is quite nice learning about CSA in Malawi and this past week I was busy looking for CSA Stakeholder contacts (Name, Phone number and Email address) to invite to the CSA Country Profile Stakeholder Workshop on the week of 14<sup>th<\/sup> May. I managed to come up with 53 contacts, Success!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few facts from Literature review this week: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conservation agriculture and agroforestry are the most promoted CSA practices in Malawi.<\/li>\n<li>There are 22 policies currently in Malawi that do recognise the negative effects of climate change, though specific issues of climate-smart agriculture are not implicitly indicated. [A lot must be done on policies to reflect CSA practices and the current emerging cross-cutting issues of gender, youth in climate change action and disaster risk reduction]. There are also issues about land tenure as CSA may have long-term benefits which people are willing to adopt if they have long-term ownership of the land.<\/li>\n<li>Many stakeholders are involved in the promotion of CSA in Malawi and they work in collaboration with the Government set structures, especially the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security.<\/li>\n<li>Research into the socio-economic impact of CSA is still limited in Malawi.<\/li>\n<li>Women are highly involved in CSA on focus crops; soybeans and ground nuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information:<\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/a-ar715e.pdf\">www.fao.org\/3\/a-ar715e.pdf<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0971852416640639\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0971852416640639<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10705-015-9711-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10705-015-9711-8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #444444;cursor: text;font-family: 'Open Sans',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">See you soon, let me get packing as I return to Malawi this coming week.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a weekend here in Galway and I am out basking in the sun with the courage of reflecting through the past week. It was a tight week again,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/2018\/04\/28\/climate-smart-agriculture-quick-facts-about-malawi\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/decolius-alexander-kalumo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}