The objective of the project Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Mozambique was to contribute to food security and capacity to adapt to climate change in agricultural and pastoral systems in the district of Guijá, Province of Gaza, Southern Mozambique.
The project strategy proposed to overcome the barriers to reduce vulnerability of the target population through four mid-terms development changes (outcomes):
- Improved livelihoods through drought tolerant crops and improved livestock keeping techniques.
- Enhanced use of meteorological information by setting up an early warning system that would combine meteorological information for disaster management and agricultural planning with dissemination through community radio.
- Mitigated drought effects by enhancing water supply through groundwater exploitation and rain water collection systems A fourth outcome referred to the documentation, dissemination and replication of the project approaches and solutions.