Transforming agriculture sector in Tanzania through building climate-resilient value chains

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 12 min read

CEO and owner of Jackama Enterprise Company, Jackson Massawe inspects his sunflower filling machine in Dodoma. Photo by | SNV-CRAFT-2020.

vii. Conducted a Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) exercise. In the CRAFT project, the climate risk assessment (CRA) methodology explores what climate risks different actors, resources, and processes along a value chain face, and to identify suitable adaptation strategies that can help to lower these risks. At the same time, insights derived from the CRA provides a rationale for the climate smart business cases being developed in the CRAFT project. To understand the climate and weather variability, climate prediction models were developed for each supported crop in the value chains in Tanzania. The climate change projections were carried out for different climate variables (scenarios) in the identified value chains. For each value chain, climate variables such as rainfall, maximum, minimum, and mean temperature were analysed that explored climate risks and identified suitable adaptation strategies for different actors, resources and processes across potato, sorghum, common bean, and sunflower value chains.

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