Client: International Finance Corporation
Duration: 2012-2012
Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
Country: Zambia
Solutions: Environment
DAI supported a World Bank pilot program by assessing and making recommendations for investment and design of a mobile platform for disseminating market and climate information. This information would be for farmers in the Kafue and Barotse sub-basins of Zambia.
If the project moves forward after the assessment, Zambia will be one of the first countries to launch a large-scale mobile platform for communicating market and climate information. This collaborative national platform would integrate information from multiple government agencies and agricultural support organizations, improving the ability of Zambian farmers to mitigate and recover from the negative effects of climate change that are making drought and floods more common. In addition to DAI’s work, the program included projects that support climate resilience through private sector investment, microfinance, and weather index-based insurance for farmers.
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