A landlocked country located in south-east Africa, Malawi has
abundant natural resources, including good soils and abundant
water, wildlife, fisheries and forests, but the dependence of
the population on these resources makes them highly vulnerable
to climate variability and change. More than 90 per cent of the
people of Malawi, mainly resource-poor rural communities, are
predominantly engaged in subsistence rain-fed agriculture.
Malawi has suffered from a number of adverse climatic hazards
events over the last several decades, the most serious of which
have been dry spells, seasonal droughts, intense rainfall,
riverine floods and flash floods. Some of these, especially
droughts and floods, have increased in frequency, intensity and
magnitude over the last two decades and have adversely impacted
on food and water security, water quality, energy and the
sustainable livelihoods of rural and peri-urban resource-poor
communities. Timelines of the NAPA preparation process in Malawi
Funding for the preparation of t