{"id":24,"date":"2021-01-29T12:24:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2021-02-04T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:43:08","slug":"climate-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Climate services<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change has been observed in the country and it is mainly in form of droughts or floods. In order to address the challenges brought about by climate change government in partnership with the private sector have been providing Climate Information and Weather Index insurance services. Government through the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) under the Ministry of Agriculture has insuring 1millions against weather related risks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mitigation strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to reduce the sector&#8217;s contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions the government has invested in about 2,000 solar milling plants that are aimed at de-carbonizing  the food processing activities. These solar milling plants are scattered throughout the country and are run by the co-operative societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/IMG-20200131-WA0017-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/IMG-20200131-WA0017-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/IMG-20200131-WA0017-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/IMG-20200131-WA0017.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><figcaption><strong>A rain gauge minder taking rainfall readings. Credit: Kachasa 2019<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/SOLAR-MILLING-PLANT-PANELS-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" width=\"315\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/SOLAR-MILLING-PLANT-PANELS-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/SOLAR-MILLING-PLANT-PANELS-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/SOLAR-MILLING-PLANT-PANELS-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/142\/2021\/01\/SOLAR-MILLING-PLANT-PANELS.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Solar Milling plant in Namwala -Zambia. <em>Credit Kachasa 2019<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate services Climate change has been observed in the country and it is mainly in form of droughts or floods. In order to address the challenges brought about by climate&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/climate-change\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/mwape-moses-kachasa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}